"Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it's still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There's a lot more to each of these tools than those uses I make of these commands on a routine basis. Let's take a look at some one-liners you might not yet have tried.
"One of my long-standing "tricks" for awk is using $NF to print the last field on every line. Since NF represents the number of fields on a line (e.g., 6), $NF represents the value of that last field (e.g., $6). Printing the last field of every line, therefore, might look like this:
$ awk '{print $NF}' myfile
"or this:
$ awk -F: '{print $NF}' /etc/passwd
"depending on whether the file is white space delimited or not."
