steven chen
Reputation: 57
Splitting lines by delimiter in large file
I have a file in this format:
a(tab)b(tab)c
some lines do not have a c column
What I need to do is take the b column out of every line? What would be the best way to accomplish this?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 62
Answers (1)
ILostMySpoon
Reputation: 2409
You can use cut to extract the second field (tab is the default delimiter for cut):
cut -f2 file
Upvotes: 1
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