uniq(1) on last field

[Janos Dohanics]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 13:20:37 -0600
Alex Stangl <alex at stangl.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 12:43:06PM -0600, Alex Stangl wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:03:19AM -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote:
> > > Would you please help with a shell scripting problem. I have a
> > > samba audit log file which after some parsing has entries like
> > > this:
> > > 
> > > Nov 5 15:07:10   testuser 10.10.10.72 pluto pwrite ok
> > > COMMON/Solidworks Parts & Assemblies/CDE - Beck/Tube Baffle
> > > Coalescer Model/~$40in OD Shell.SLDPRT
> > > 
> > > I would like to use uniq(1) on the file name, which is of course
> > > the last field if / is used as field separator. 
> > 
> > $ awk -F'/' '{printf "%s%s%s\n", $NF, "/", $0}' yourfile.txt | sort
> > -k '1,1' -u -t'/' | cut -f2- -d'/'
> 
> Or, even shorter,
> 
> $ awk -F'/' '{printf "%s/%s\n", $NF, $0}' yourfile.txt | sort -k
> '1,1' -u -t'/' | cut -f2- -d'/'
> 
> 
> Alex

Alex,

works perfectly, thank you.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

-- 
Janos Dohanics