How Do I Find the 5Th Column in Unix?
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How do I find a specific column in Unix?

The syntax for extracting a selection based on a column number is:

  1. $ cut -c n [filename(s)] where n equals the number of the column to extract. …
  2. $ cat class. A Johnson Sara. …
  3. $ cut -c 1 class. A. …
  4. $ cut -f n [filename(s)] where n represents the number of the field to extract. …
  5. $ cut -f 2 class > class.lastname.

How do you show the 5th line in Unix?

Below are three great ways to get the nth line of a file in Linux.

  1. head / tail. Simply using the combination of the head and tail commands is probably the easiest approach. …
  2. sed. There are a couple of nice ways to do this with sed . …
  3. awk. awk has a built in variable NR that keeps track of file/stream row numbers.
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