Windows command for cutting columns from a text

Question

The following content is stored in a file:

chrome.exe                   512 Console                 0     73,780 K
chrome.exe                   800 Console           


        

Answer 1

@ECHO OFF

for /F "tokens=2-4" %%a in (%1) DO ( echo %%a %%b %%c )

took me a long time to find out that %%a %%b %%c .... [%%z] refer to subsequent colums in a text file. So this example will extract the 2nd, 3rd and 4th column (word) from a textfile (%1).

Answer 2

Use double % in variable

for /f "tokens=5 delims= " %%i in (file.txt) DO echo %%i

Answer 3

If you're familiar with the GNU cut utility, you might be better off using the Win32 port:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

Answer 4

If you had perl installed:

perl.exe -na  -e "print qq{$F[4]\n}" < myfile.txt