Extracting columns from text file using Perl one-liner: similar to Unix cut
Here is a Perl one-liner to print the first 3 whitespace-delimited columns of a file. This can be run on Windows (or Unix). Refer to perlrun.
perl -ane "print qq(@F[0..2]\n)" file.txt
you can download GNU windows and use your normal cut/awk etc..Or natively, you can use vbscript
Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")Set objArgs = WScript.ArgumentsstrFile = objArgs(0)Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile)Do Until objFile.AtEndOfLine strLine=objFile.ReadLine sp = Split(strLine," ") s="" For i=0 To 2 s=s&" "&sp(i) Next WScript.Echo sLoopsave the above as mysplit.vbs and on command line
c:\test> cscript //nologo mysplit.vbs fileOr just simple batch
@echo offfor /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%a in (file) do (echo %%a %%b %%c)If you want a Python one liner
c:\test> type file|python -c "import sys; print [' '.join(i.split()[:3]) for i in sys.stdin.readlines()]"
That's rather simple Python script:
for line in open("my file"): parts = line.split(" ") print " ".join(parts[0:3])