[ale] Shell Scripting question

[Geoffrey]

linuxnews at wormfishin.com wrote:
> I'm relatively new to shell scripting, and I have a question which 
> hopefully has an easy answer.  I have a script that runs and produces an 
> output file.  the output file looks something like "you have and error in 
> /this/file"  how can I pull the "/this/file" out of this line?

Would help if we new the exact text of the error message rather than 
'something like, but the following will likely work:

awk '{print $NF}' THE_NAME_OF_THE_OUTPUT_FILE

That is as long as the file name is the last 'field' on that line.  A 
field in this case is separated by whitespace.

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