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Asked: June 10, 20262026-06-10T01:13:27+00:00 2026-06-10T01:13:27+00:00

I have strings with delimited fields, but a different number of fields in each,

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I have strings with delimited fields, but a different number of fields in each, eg:

  • this/that
  • this/that/theother
  • this/that/theother/stuff

I want to retrieve the last two fields in each case, ie:

  • this/that
  • that/theother
  • theother/stuff

This is easy in MySQL with the substring_index function, and I see this thread explains how to do it in PHP.

Can someone help me achieve the same with awk in the command line? Thanks

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    2026-06-10T01:13:29+00:00Added an answer on June 10, 2026 at 1:13 am
    echo 'this/that/theother/stuff' | awk -F/ '{print $(NF-1) "/" $(NF)}'
    
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