another way to cut from the end of the line

[w5000]

right now I am using too complex way:

.....|rev|cut -c1-6|rev

 

[feherke]

Hi

grep -o '.\{6\}$' /input/file

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ruby -pe '$_=$_[-7..-1]' /input/file

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sed 's/.*\(.\{6\}\)$/\1/' /input/file

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awk '{print substr($0,length($0)-5)}' /input/file

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gawk '{print gensub(/.*(.{6})$/,"\\1","")}' /input/file

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

A more portable sed way:

... | sed 's/.*\(......\)$/\1/'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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