Silly bash function I use all the time. function f { awk '{print $'$1'}' } cat t...

bsaunder · on Sept 10, 2009

cut -f2 tab-separated > just-the-2nd-column

philh · on Sept 10, 2009

I have a script much like cut, but which can reorder and duplicate fields.

mmt · on Sept 10, 2009

doesn't work if it's any-amount-of-whitespace separated

obecalp · on Sept 10, 2009

-d'<tab>'

mmt · on Sept 16, 2009

Nope: echo 'a b' | cut -d' ' -f2 a b

rv77ax · on Sept 10, 2009

load "tab-separated" ( :f1:::'\t', :f2:::'\t', :f3::: ) as x;

create "just-the-2nd-column" from x ( :f2::: );