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I have a file in the following format and it is tab separated

a   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
b   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
c   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA

I want to do some operation on each line so I am using a while loop.I want to split each line on tab and then store let's say 6th column which is 8 week in a variable. I am using this code but I am not able to get what I want

while read -r line; do tmp=(${line///}); col6=${tmp[5]}; echo "$col6"; done < file.txt

This gives me 8 and not 8 week. 8 week has a space in between 8 and week and hence I want to split the line on tab.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I have a file in the following format and it is tab separated

a   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
b   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
c   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA

while read -r line; do tmp=(${line///}); col6=${tmp[5]}; echo "$col6"; done < file.txt

This gives me 8 and not 8 week. 8 week has a space in between 8 and week and hence I want to split the line on tab.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I have a file in the following format and it is tab separated

a   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
b   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
c   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA

while read -r line; do tmp=(${line///}); col6=${tmp[5]}; echo "$col6"; done < file.txt

This gives me 8 and not 8 week. 8 week has a space in between 8 and week and hence I want to split the line on tab.

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splitting a line into array in bash with tab as delimiter

I have a file in the following format and it is tab separated

a   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
b   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA
c   k   testis  adult   male    8 week  rRNA

while read -r line; do tmp=(${line///}); col6=${tmp[5]}; echo "$col6"; done < file.txt

This gives me 8 and not 8 week. 8 week has a space in between 8 and week and hence I want to split the line on tab.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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