Print last matching line?

Question

Using awk, I would like to print the last matching line of a file. I would like only the matching line itself, not any range of lines. I can use a command like

Answer 1

The command tail allows you to retreive the last n lines of an input stream. You can pipe your awk output into tail in order to trim off everything except the last line:

awk '/foo/' bar.txt | tail -1