Ubuntu get the last word in a sentence from a text file

Question

I have a tab separated text file structured as follows: ``` word0 word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 ``` From a linux commond line I want to: - Get only word6 - How would I get only the characters ord6 in word6?

Accepted Answer

AWK can do that :

```
 $ echo "word0 word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6" | awk '{ print $(NF) }'
 word6
```

Ubuntu get the last word in a sentence from a text file

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