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# 1  
Old 06-28-2007
cut last 4 chars
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)
# 2  
Old 06-28-2007
Code:
awk -F'-'  '{ print $NF} ' filename

# 3  
Old 06-28-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
awk -F'-'  '{ print $NF} ' filename


thanks Jim... Thats was Simple...
# 4  
Old 06-28-2007
I could see a pattern there

so here's another one !

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

# 5  
Old 06-28-2007
Code:
sed 's/.*\(....\)$/\1/' input_file

# 6  
Old 06-29-2007
Code:
while read str
do
	echo ${str##*-}
done < file

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