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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading a file using sh with spaces in filename Post 302171062 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 27th of February 2008 01:56:01 PM
Old 02-27-2008
Try the cut command.

With a space as fieldseperator you can print the 2nd and the 3th column. Check the manpage of cut.


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ASN2ASN(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual							ASN2ASN(1)

NAME
asn2asn - convert NCBI data between text and binary ASN.1 SYNOPSIS
asn2asn [-] [-b] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s] [-x] DESCRIPTION
asn2asn converts data in NCBI's ASN.1 format between binary and text subformats, or to isomorphic XML. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. - Print usage message -b Input asnfile in binary mode -e Input is a Seq-entry -i filename Read input from filename rather than stdin -l filename Log errors to filename -o filename Write output to filename rather than stdout -s Output asnfile in binary mode -x Output XML instead of ASN.1 AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information. SEE ALSO
asn2ff(1), asn2gb(1), asn2xml(1), asndhuff(1) NCBI
2002-08-30 ASN2ASN(1)
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