using cut to break down text
You can use
cut to grab only the data you want from a line of text. Tell
cut which groups of characters you are interested in and it will print them. By default
cut uses
tab characters to break down groups of text from the input file.
NOTE: In the example data files which follow, the strings
<TAB> and
<SPACE> shall be used to visually distinguish whitespace characters. A
tab character is the character generated when you press the...