Select a particular column using awk or cut or perl

Question

I have a requirement to select the 7th column from a tab delimited file. eg:

cat filename | awk \'{print $7}\'

The issue is that the data in th

Answer 1

If the data is unambiguously tab-separated, then cut will cut on tabs, not spaces:

cut -f7 filename

You can certainly do that with awk, too:

awk -F'\t' '{ print $7 }'