cut last 4 chars - Shell Programming and Scripting

pbsrinivas · #1 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

hi

i wanted to cut last 4 chars from a text file

Input

A-B-C-V-15-0115
A-BL-CLE-T-VALUE-0125
M-T-L-G-0115
AT-PR-PE-CCT-0135

Output

0115
0125
0115
0135

I tried cut -f - -d "-" (thinking cut -f 5- -d"-" gives 5 ot end of line so only - should give last but floped)

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

Code:

awk -F'-'  '{ print $NF} ' filename

pbsrinivas · #3 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

Code:

awk -F'-'  '{ print $NF} ' filename

thanks Jim... Thats was Simple...

matrixmadhan · #4 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

I could see a pattern there

so here's another one !

Code:

sed 's/^.*-//g' filename

Shell_Life · #5 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

Code:

sed 's/.*\(....\)$/\1/' input_file

anbu23 · #6 (**permalink**) 06-28-2007

Code:

while read str
do
	echo ${str##*-}
done < file

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