Sorting on the last field of a line

Question

What is the simplest way to sort a list of lines, sorting on the last field of each line? Each line may have a variable number of fields.

Something like

Answer 1

I want this list sorted on the filenames, which all start with numbers indicating the order the files should be read.

find . | sed 's#.*/##' | sort

the sed replaces all parts of the list of results that ends in slashes. the filenames are whats left, and you sort on that.