Shell Script - print selected columns
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Hi,
I have a txt file with columns separated by tabs and based on that file, I want to create a new file that only contains information from some of the columns.
This is what I have now
awk '{ print $1, $5 }' filename > newfilename
That works except that when column 5 contains spaces e.g 123 Street, only 123 shows up and the street is considered as another column.
How can I achieve what I'm trying to do?
Thanks,
Tee
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