On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 08:29:59PM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > I have a script which needs the extension of a file. The problem I am > having is how do I get the chars at the end of a filename after the > LAST period? > > brock at brockwork backups $ ls | awk -F. '{ print $2}' I think you want '{print $NF}' Nate