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07-05-2005

oldtrash

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Last element from cut

Hi,

I am looking for a way to get the last element of a cut command

ex.

$pwd
/remote/username/dir1/dir2/dir3

$pwd | cut -f3 -d/
username

I need to extract "dir3" (last one) no matter whichever position it is.

Thanks,
sskb

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