snippets/old_snippets/awk-last-column.en.md

title	seo_description	date	draft	snippet_types
awk last column	Shell snippet explaining how to extract the last column using awk	2022-02-13T10:46:08+01:00	false	awk

My first awk snippet! Today I needed to get all the file extensions in directory for a blog post I'm writing.

I solved it with:

$ fd . --type f | awk -F"." '{print $(NF)}' |  tr  '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq | pbcopy

Break down

fd . --type f, lists all the files in a directory recursively.

awk -F"." '{print $(NF)}', the -F"." tells awk to split columns on ".". The '{print $(NF)'} tells awk to print the last column. Normally you do something like '{print $2}' to print the second column.

tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]', tr is a Unix until to translate characters. In this case all upper case letters will be translated to lower case. I've created a seprate snippet for it as well.

sort | uniq, a classic combo sorts the results then gets rid of duplicates.

pbcopy, anther common one for me pipes the result into the clipboard.

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