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    are you always going to want a consecutive set of columns (e.g. 2-7, or 5-15 or whatever)? if so, you can use a loop to print the columns. If not, there's no avoiding listing the individual columns you want (although you can mix in some loops where needed). Also, how many columns? Commented Jul 29, 2019 at 2:07
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    Finally, you might want to consider a language like perl or python with a good CSV parser....especially if you have the column names in the first line (several of perl's CSV parsing modules can use these to construct a hash with the column names as keys. i'm pretty sure python's CSV parsers can do similar). perl also has excellent array & hash splicing operators. Commented Jul 29, 2019 at 2:09
  • @cas yes the columns would be always consecutive. Commented Jul 29, 2019 at 13:55
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    Does this answer your question? Print range of columns comma-separated, and the rest without comma-separation Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 15:18
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