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:

1. Get only word6
2. How would I get only the characters ord6 in word6?

Answer 1

AWK can do that :

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