Shell Programming and Scripting

Funny, that's how I feel about most of the awk answers here.

But seriously, no harm in giving out a learning example when others have already given the quick-help example. I answered the general question in the title--works even if the character is not "/".

Mike

Maybe learning AWK would be of more benefit for you, than those parameter substitutions . Besides, AWK is found on virtually any system (in one version or another), while those parameter substitutions are just BASH feature (I think).

The pattern, default, substitution, and counting parameter substitutions are part of POSIX and are fully implemented in Sh, Korn, and Bash. Bash adds the very powerful positional, replacement, prefix, and array substititions.

I would like to learn AWK and I'm sure I would benefit. I'm not sure the syntax is any less obfuscated.

Mike

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Been studying AWK for about an hour. I think this is an AWK example

Code:

awk 'BEGIN { FS="/" }; { print $NF }'

Testing:
$ echo '/this/is/a/path/this_is_a_file' | awk 'BEGIN { FS="/" }; { print $NF }'
this_is_a_file

Also:

Code:

awk -F "/" '{ print $NF }'