Gawk Print Last Field

gawk script to print the last field of each line:

gawk -F <delimiter> "{ print $NF }".

-F defines the separator in the command line, otherwise you would prepend "BEGIN { FS=<delimiter> }".

NF is the number of fields in a line and $n is the value of the n'th field, so $NF outputs the last field.

See Also

• Perl and Ruby versions
• PowerShell and Python versions
• Cut command version