Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need a script to read last word of the line and out put in some temp file.
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it can contain any word like:

My name is Harry.
or
My zip code is 24490
or it can be
My secret code is 024H

I just need last word of the line (Harry, or 2440 or 024H)

Thanks for the posts below. commands are working properly. but there is slight modification in requirement.

1. command to get only first word of line.
2. command to get any middle word. like it can be 4th word or 5th. (something that i can change on run time).

Thanks again.

Code:

echo "My zip code is 24490" | awk '{print $NF}' >>tempfile

Suppose the file is abc.txt from which u have to extract out last line..

the command is

Code:

cat abc.txt | awk '{print $NF}'

That is a useless use of cat. awk is fully capable of reading files without cat's help.

Code:

awk '{ print $NF }' filename1 filename2 filename3 ...
# or
awk '{ print $NF }' < filename

Homework question?

Please answer.

What did you really try?

OK

I think the "." after "Harry" should not be included, right?

@ Scrutinizer: yeah you are right. that was typo. "." is not included. but I'm still looking for answer for the question. like i want to get nth word of this line.