flowdimow wrote:
> I have a text file (a table) and I want to read it and output only a
> defined number of colums. Does anybody know how to do this?
Depending on if the data is by character column or by whitespace
separated field I would use either cut or awk.
echo abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | cut -c3-4,14-23
cdnopqrstuvw
echo one two three four five six seven | awk '{print$2,$NF}'
two seven
Bob
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