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Jan 262010
 

Print a particular column data using awk

Answer:

Consider you have a file text.txt like below

1 one
2 two
3 three

How would you only print the second column?

It can be easily done using awk

# awk '{print $2}' text.txt
one
two
three

Try the above command with $1, $2, $3 etc.

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