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# 1  
Old 04-13-2012
Extract several columns with few rows
Hello,

I want to extract several columns and rows from a huge tab delimited file

for example: I want to print from from column 3 to 68 till row number 30.

I have tried using cut command but it was extracting whole 3rd and 68th column.


Please suggest a solution.

Ryan
# 2  
Old 04-13-2012
Always beginning from row 1?
# 3  
Old 04-13-2012
yes from row 1
# 4  
Old 04-13-2012
Use head first, e.g.
Code:
head -30 file | cut -c3-68

# 5  
Old 04-13-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by CarloM
Use head first, e.g.
Code:
head -30 file | cut -c3-68



cut -c3-68 this option is only displaying characters of the column not the column from 3 to 68
# 6  
Old 04-13-2012
Code:
head -30 file | whatever cut command you were using before since it's not relevant to extracting only up to row 30

# 7  
Old 04-13-2012
Try like...
Code:
 cut -d '|' -f3-6 test2.txt|sed -n '1,7 p'
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