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I am trying to select a column using a search term.

My input file looks like this (tab delimited):

ABC BJS FDG GHH DGH DFG GHF
95 456 5 266 87 4567 67
3 54 678 4567 45 6 36
232 55 3 5 6 8...

Thanks Shell_life and mobitron! It works now!

Thank you again for your help!

I get the following output:
tr "\r" "\n" master_tab_delimited_file.txt > new_master.txt
usage: tr [-Ccsu] string1 string2
tr [-Ccu] -d string1
tr...

when I do:
wc -l filename.txt

I get
0 filename.txt

Hi Mobitron,

Here are some of my sample file (sorry for the long row):
157 160 161 163 167 181 216 247
PGP_AHY56 PGP_MOY83 PGP_JFY63 PGP_JCY63 PGP_SCY57 ...

I am new to scripting/programming, so I apologize for any novice questions.

I have a tab delimited text file that was saved from excel xls file.

I am trying to select only the third column...