bash: shortest way to get n-th column of output

Question

Let\'s say that during your workday you repeatedly encounter the following form of columnized output from some command in bash (in my case from executing svn st

Answer 1

You can use cut to access the second field:

cut -f2

Edit: Sorry, didn't realise that SVN doesn't use tabs in its output, so that's a bit useless. You can tailor cut to the output but it's a bit fragile - something like cut -c 10- would work, but the exact value will depend on your setup.

Another option is something like: sed 's/.\s\+//'