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Old November 10th, 2004, 08:58 AM
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How to print the last word in a sentence?
Let say there's a file with many lines and I want to print ONLY the last word in each line. NOTE: I don't know the position of the last word in each line. see examples in below:

I am working
He is watching TV
She and her mother are not home

I need ONE command line to print only the last word in above lines (working, TV and home).


Thanks in advance.

Thanh
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Old November 10th, 2004, 09:28 AM
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Try:
awk '{ print $NF }'
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Old November 10th, 2004, 01:16 PM
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Perderabo is correct, this is cheaper
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