Extracting columns from text file with different delimiters in Linux

Question

I have very large genotype files that are basically impossible to open in R, so I am trying to extract the rows and columns of interest using linux command line. Rows are st

Answer 1

You can use cut with a delimiter like this:

with space delim:

cut -d " " -f1-100,1000-1005 infile.csv > outfile.csv

with tab delim:

cut -d$'\t' -f1-100,1000-1005 infile.csv > outfile.csv

I gave you the version of cut in which you can extract a list of intervals...

Hope it helps!