bash: shortest way to get n-th column of output
You can use cut to access the second field:
cut -f2Edit:Sorry, didn't realise that SVN doesn't use tabs in its output, so that's a bit useless. You can tailor cut to the output but it's a bit fragile - something like cut -c 10- would work, but the exact value will depend on your setup.
Another option is something like: sed 's/.\s\+//'
I found myself in the same situation and ended up adding these aliases to my .profile file:
alias c1="awk '{print \$1}'"alias c2="awk '{print \$2}'"alias c3="awk '{print \$3}'"alias c4="awk '{print \$4}'"alias c5="awk '{print \$5}'"alias c6="awk '{print \$6}'"alias c7="awk '{print \$7}'"alias c8="awk '{print \$8}'"alias c9="awk '{print \$9}'"Which allows me to write things like this:
svn st | c2 | xargs rm