Hello,

let's say I have a text file:

 
word11 word12 word13
word21 word22 word23
word31 word32 word33

set list = `cut -d" " -f2 ${1}`

 
word11 word12    word13
word21    word22 word23
word31 word32 word33

set list = `awk {print $2}' ${1}`

> echo "word1 word2 word3" | cut -d" " -f2
word2
> echo "word1  word2 word3" | cut -d" " -f2

> echo "word1  word2 word3" | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2
word2
> echo "word1  word2 word3" | awk '{print $2}'         
word2

Thanks!
I was wondering if there's a solution that involves perhaps a pipeline or a loop instead of an awk?
I thought about

set list = `cat ${1} | cut -d" " -f3`

Hey Joey, thanks so much!

how do I write it (with tr) in my script?
like this?

set list = `tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2 ${1}`

set list = `cat ${1} | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f2`

> cat file146
val1 val2 val3
val4  val5 val6
val7   val8  val9

> tr -s " " <file146 | cut -d" " -f2
val2
val5
val8

> tr -s " " <file146 | cut -d" " -f2 >file146.out
> cat file146.out
val2
val5
val8

> mylist=`tr -s " " <file146 | cut -d" " -f2`
> echo ${mylist}
val2 val5 val8

OK, I read about it, tr is a genial command!
It worked!
Joey, you're the best, thanks so much!