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Shell command: cut

-f: Extracting specified columns from tab separated columns file:
cut -f 1,3 testfiles/tab-separated_3-fields
Github repository shell-commands, path: /cut/f1,3
-d: Specfiying the delimiter (in the following command: a space):
cut -d" "  -f1,3 testfiles/space-separated_3-fields
Github repository shell-commands, path: /cut/d__f1,3

See also

column to create tabular data from an input stream.
awk
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