how about using awk to print the last column, using number of columns
variable $NF:
awk '{print $NF}' file
Regards,
Mike
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 4:43 PM, ESChamp <esch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize for having to ask this but my nearly-80-year-old brain just
> could not come up with a solution.
>
> I have a text file consisting of several space-separated fields:
>
> lastname firstname other other other ... emailaddress
>
> I wish to write a new file that contains only the emailaddress field
> contents.
>
> There's no need to test the emailaddress field.
>
> I just need a quick and dirty solution as this will be used just one time.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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