awk Tip - #4

[Trevor]

$   awk  -F'\t'   '{ print  $NF }'  <filename>
     -  This command will print the last field of each line, even if each line does NOT have
         the same number of fields

Try the command on a file with the following content:

one
one(tab)two
one(tab)two(tab)three
one(tab)two(tab)three(tab)four
one(tab)two(tab)three(tab)four(tab)five
one(tab)two(tab)three(tab)four(tab)five(tab)six

Note: (tab) indicates a tab character