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Old 12-17-2010
Question Print columns from each row
I have awk command to print column 8

awk '/select/ {print $8}'
which will print column 8

But I need to print 3, 5 and 8 column in a row and each column should be de-limited by "\t"

Hope anyone help me quickly.
# 2  
Old 12-17-2010
try:
Code:
 
awk 'BEGIN {OFS="\t"} /select/{print $3,$5,$8}'

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# 3  
Old 12-20-2010
Code:
awk '/select/{print $3"^I"$5"^I"$8}' file

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