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Getting last folder from a directory using grep or cut

i just want to have the last word I have tried reverse too still I am not able to get the last word.

../init.d/halt
../init.d/killall
../init.d/watchdog
../init.d/iptables
../init.d/network
../init.d/evlogrmt
../init.d/evlog
../init.d/rdisc
../init.d/syslog-ng
../init.d/portmap
Solution

  • As I don't think it is possible to do a one-liner with cut, let's propose a grep solution:

    $ grep -oE '[^/]+$' file
halt
killall
watchdog
iptables
network
evlogrmt
evlog
rdisc
syslog-ng
portmap

    Of course, with awk it is pretty simple: awk -F/ '{print $NF}' file.