how to "cut"

[Lai Nee Shyang_1]

Hi there

I'm writing a script to cut a couple of strings of varing size ending with "_xx" where xx is a number. Example : abc_def_12, ghi_jkl_mno_pqr_34, xyz_56"

I know cut can do delimiter follow by field number "cut -d _ -f 1", how do I specify the last field after the "_" delimiter.

Thanks

Lai

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[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Hi Lai,

cut can only reference forwards. I'd use:

awk -F_ '{print $NF}'

Rgds, Robin

[Stefan Schulz]

I can't think of a way to do this with cut, but its pretty easy with awk:

awk -F_ '{print $NF}'

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan