in reply to Column help

You could do

perl -awnle 'print $F[4]'
if you want it as a one-liner. Beware that it splits with the special ' ' delimiter which isn't identical to / / (see split). If you really need to split on a single space, consult the perlrun manpage for the -F switch which sets split pattern and use \x20.

Other than that, I think it's clear enough.

ihb

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