awk last column - 02-13-22
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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