I have a tab-delimited file like:
name1 verb1 name2 verb2 etc...
I want to delete the second column. I tried editing one of these answers, but being not familiar with sed
and awk
, I couldn't.
Can anyone help me?
vim
I have a tab-delimited file like:
name1 verb1 name2 verb2 etc...
I want to delete the second column. I tried editing one of these answers, but being not familiar with sed
and awk
, I couldn't.
Can anyone help me?
Best Answer
In vim, you should be able to use the command
(substitute TAB followed by zero or more occurrences of any character except TAB with nothing). If your file has only two columns you could use a slightly simpler
:%s/\t.*
or:%s/\t.*$
which replace the first TAB and any following characters up to the end of the line.