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awk (or cut) to process from right to left?

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Sep 25, 2008, 2:36:59 PM9/25/08

Is it possible to process lines from right to left instead of the
default left to right?

I'm trying to strip off the main domains from a list, ie:

I was trying to pipe the above through awk or cut, such that I get 14
zedo.com returned:

If I could parse from right to left, with "." delimiter, I'd have my
list. But I'm curious if that is possible.

Help would be great.

Thanks!

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Sep 25, 2008, 2:48:26 PM9/25/08

IIUC, just do

awk -F'.' -v OFS='.' '{print $(NF-1),$NF}' file

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Sep 25, 2008, 3:04:59 PM9/25/08

That's it! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

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