An interesting sort problem

[jd1008]

On 11/11/2015 04:44 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 15:23 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> How can one tell sort to chose the last word in the line as the sort
>> key?
>>
>> You can't. Field specifiers are relative to the start of the line.
>> There
>> isn't a way to specify them relative to the end of the line.
> In awk NF is the number of fields in the line, so it's also the index
> of the last field (fields are numbered from 1). Just a thought.
>
> poc
Yep!
I used it in a shell script to achieve what I wanted, and it worked just 
fine.