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

If you are ok with manually selecting the column, you could be very fast using pick:

svn st | pick | xargs rm

Just go to any cell of the 2nd column, press c and then hit enter