Is there a unix command to extract only certain columns of data from a
large text file, assuming everything is organized into columns? Or can vi
do this?

Thanks in advance,

Faraz.

In article <7nl0ga$sf...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
faraz hussain  <fhuss...@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:

cut or awk can do this.  Read their man pages.

man cut
man awk
man gawk

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man cut

e.g.  if file.name contains

a b c
d e f
i j k

cut -f1 -d" " file.name gives

a
d
i

cut
awk
sed
perl

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: Is there a unix command to extract only certain columns of data from a
: large text file, assuming everything is organized into columns? Or can vi
: do this?

: Thanks in advance,

: Faraz.
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