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Tail takes the last few lines in a file, like so:

 francisco$ tail -1 /etc/passwd
 testuser:*:1001:1001:test:/usr/home/testuser:/bin/ksh

This can also be achieve with [[sed]] and [[awk]], but requires a bit more programming in them.

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