I have a file with text in the format of:
User\ Name My\ Password
Notice this is actually a 2 column file, where columns contain escaped spaces.
cut -d' ' -f2 produces Name but I want to produce My Password.
Is it possible to use cut and delimited only based on non-escaped spaces? If not, what alternate command can I use?
I would suggest GNU grep approach:
Sample input.txt:
User\ Name My\ Password
first\ field second\ field
Cut the 2nd field from 2-columned file:
grep -Po '[^\\]\x20\K.*' input.txt
The output:
My\ Password
second\ field
Or the same with sed:
sed 's/.*[^\\]\x20\(.*\)/\1/' input.txt
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The crucial regex pattern part is [^\\]\x20 that matches a space \x20(space hex code) if it's preceded by any char except escaping backslash [^\\]
