Cut 9#

Problem#

Given a tab delimited file with several columns (tsv format) print the fields from second fields to last field.

Input Format#

A tab-separated file with lines of ASCII text only.

Constraints#

\(1 \le N \le 100\)
\(2 \le C \le 100\)

(\(N\) is the number of lines of text in the input file and \(C\) is the number of columns of data in the file)

Output Format#

The output should contain \(N\) lines.

For each line in the input, print the fields from second fields to last field.

Sample Input#

 New York, New York[10]  8,244,910   1   New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA  19,015,900  1   New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 22,214,083
 Los Angeles, California 3,819,702   2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA    12,944,801  2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA    18,081,569
 Chicago, Illinois   2,707,120   3   Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,504,753   3   Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA  9,729,825
 Houston, Texas  2,145,146   4   Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA 6,526,548   4   Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA 8,718,083
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[11]  1,536,471   5   Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA  6,086,538   5   Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA   7,601,061

Sample Output#

New York, New York[10]  8,244,910   1   New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA MSA  19,015,900  1   New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA 22,214,083
Los Angeles, California 3,819,702   2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA MSA    12,944,801  2   Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA    18,081,569
Chicago, Illinois   2,707,120   3   Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,504,753   3   Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA  9,729,825
Houston, Texas  2,145,146   4   Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA 6,526,548   4   Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA 8,718,083
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[11]  1,536,471   5   Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX MSA  6,086,538   5   Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-RI-NH CSA   7,601,061

Solution#

cut-9.sh#

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# shellcheck disable=SC2162
while read line_txt; do
    echo "${line_txt}" | cut -f 2-
done

Cut 9

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