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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grepping columns Post 302171160 by ScKaSx on Wednesday 27th of February 2008 06:17:45 PM
Old 02-27-2008
grepping columns

Hi All,

I was recently helped out 'big time' with my last post on changing multiple file formats (thx, scott1256ca and bakunin)!

My new question is about selecting and displaying columns in a file using (possibly) grep. Several of my data files are spreadsheet format (columns separated by tabs). So for instance lets say I have four columns of data:

Quote:
#1 2 3 4
a b c d
a b c d
a b c d
a b c d
.
.
.
If I wanted to redirect only the 1st and 3rd column to a file, would this be possible with grep? Some other command or script?

Cheers,
ScKaSx
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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