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Hi
I am writing a script that needs to read all file from a directory and print only last word of all file names.
My script:

for file in /documents/files/
do
$shortFile=$(file##.*)
echo $shortFile
done

All my file names in /document/files/ directory are like unix_ubuntu but I need to read only second word after underscore i.e., ubuntu only

Code:

for file in /documents/files/ 
do
   echo ${file##*_}
done

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