On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 16:58 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > On 11/11/2015 04:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 15:23 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > > > How can one tell sort to chose the last word in the line as the > > > > sort > > > key? > > > > > > You can't. Field specifiers are relative to the start of the > > > line. > > > There > > > isn't a way to specify them relative to the end of the line. > > In awk NF is the number of fields in the line, so it's also the > > index > > of the last field (fields are numbered from 1). Just a thought. > > > > poc > Yep! > I used it in a shell script to achieve what I wanted, and it worked > just > fine. Good to know. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
