treating multiple delimiters[solved]

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi, I need to display the last column value in the below o/p.

sam2  PS    03/10/11    0  441

Unable to get o/p with this awk code

awk -F"[/]+" '{ print $4 }' pwdchk.txt

I need to display 441(in this eg.) and also accept it as a variable to treat it with if condition and take a decision. Requesting help.

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Oh! just hit upon an idea

awk -F"[/ ]+" '{ print $7 }' pwdchk.txt

I do get o/p as 441; but is it correct way? Just did on trial and error basis. Please suggest/explain.

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you can just do this to store the last column in a shell variable...

VAR=$(awk '{print $NF}' file)

where file contents are...

sam2  PS    03/10/11    0  441
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