Unix & Linux: How to define 'tab' delimiter with 'cut' in BASH? (4 Solutions!!)

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Unix & Linux: How to define 'tab' delimiter with 'cut' in BASH?


The Question: Here is an example of using cut to break input into fields using a space
delimiter, and obtaining the second field:
cut -f2 -d' '
How can the delimiter be defined as a tab, instead of a space?

Solutions: Please watch the whole video to see all solutions, in order of how many people found them helpful

== This solution helped 345 people ==
Two ways:
Press Ctrl+V and then Tab.
cut -f2 -d' ' infile
or write it like this:
cut -f2 -d$'t' infile

== This solution helped 14 people ==
awk -F 't' '{ print $2 }' inputfile
This extracts the second tab-delimited field of each line of input from
inputfile.

== This solution helped 211 people ==
Tab is the default.
See the http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/cut/.
-d delim
Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab
character.
So you should just write
cut -f 2

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