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Old 12-13-2011
Awk for last word
Hi

I am writing a script using nano and I'm asking the user for their full name, I then store this in a variable but I only want to display the last word that they input. Any idea on how I would do this using awk. I am not using sed, just using a script. So far I have got this...
Code:
echo "What is your full name?"
read userName
awk '{print $NF}' userName
echo "Hello $userTitle $userName"
exit 0


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Mod Comment Please use code tags!
Last edited by zaxxon; 12-13-2011 at 10:14 AM.. Reason: code tags, see PM!
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Old 12-13-2011
Something like:
Code:
realName=$(echo "$userName" | awk '{print $NF}')
echo "Hello $userTitle $realName"

(if your shell doesn't support $(...) then use backticks `...`)
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