[CentOS] question on cut

Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file.
> for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1-
> 
> I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back.
> 
> doing the opposite gave me what I expected:
> echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1
> gives me
> /home/silentm/log/file
> 
> I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log?

Awk will do it:
# echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | awk -F. '{print $NF}'
log

The benefit of awk is that you don't have to know how
many dots are in the file.  $NF just prints the last one.

-Mark


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Mark Belanger
LTX Corporation