Showing posts with label awk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awk. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

extract the last field in unix shell script

scratch notes on aws exacting the last field!
echo “ABC.123.QIP.ERR” | awk -F. {’print $(NF-0)’}

- dot after F is the field deliminator
- minus zero is the field to extract from backwards of the string