Windows command for cutting columns from a text

Question

The following content is stored in a file:

chrome.exe                   512 Console                 0     73,780 K
chrome.exe                   800 Console           


        

Answer 1

@ECHO OFF

for /F "tokens=2-4" %%a in (%1) DO ( echo %%a %%b %%c )

took me a long time to find out that %%a %%b %%c .... [%%z] refer to subsequent colums in a text file. So this example will extract the 2nd, 3rd and 4th column (word) from a textfile (%1).