[ILUG] Indiana Jones and the last word in a line

[Brian Brazil]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:47:13AM +0000, Martin.Duffy at allianz.ie wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> So as not to be OT in Linux does anyone have a nice way of printing the 
> last word of everyline in a normal ASCII file, I thought of word counting 
> each line and then throwing this into a loop which will then using this 
> value print it but I know there should be a simple way to print the last 
> word of ever line. Any ideas for the cleanest quickest way to achieve this 
> ???

perl -pe 's/.*?(\w+)\W*$/$1\n/' file

or
perl -pe 's/.*?(\w+\W*)$/$1\n/' file
if you'd like to keep [.?;,] etc.

Brian

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