Is there a cleaner way of getting the last N characters of every line?
问题 To simplify the discussion, let N = 3 . My current approach to extracting the last three characters of every line in a file or stream is to use sed to capture the last three characters in a group and replace the entire line with that group. sed 's/^.*\(.\{3\}\)/\1/' It works but it seems excessively verbose, especially when we compare to a method for getting the first three characters in a line. cut -c -3 Is there a cleaner way to extract the last N characters in every line? 回答1: It's very