My notes, things I have learned, and documentation I have created.

I have to write these things, so I can find them when I inevitably need them again.

This will give you the last element in a delimited string:

awk -F “:” ‘{print $NF}’

Here is an example:

$ echo “elemet1:element2:element3:element4” | awk -F “:” ‘{print $NF}’
element4