Re: Feature request

[Bob Proulx]

Morten Karlsen wrote:
> cut -f-1
> 
> Get last field in line....
> 
> Interested?

Personally I recommend using awk.  Then you are not dependent upon a
particular implementation of cut and can use standard tools which are
available on all systems.

  awk '{print $(NF-1)}'

  echo one two three | awk '{print $1}'
  one
  echo one two three | awk '{print $NF}'
  three
  echo one two three | awk '{print $(NF-1)}'
  two

Hope that helps.

Bob