[opensuse] Using sed to retrieve only the 2nd of 3 words on tab-separated line.

4 Nov 2016

      I have a long file full of tab-separated records.

A couple samples lines:

99616256-ZIP-335231     378599456976549
4797677379\x097997/378507976549\x0977-\x09949776-791/
99616256-ZIP-915437     4597093459474773
4770\x097428-84473-4597009474773-877-4-045270947
9

I'm only interested in the middle field:

378599456976549
4597093459474773

I'm thought I could use sed to strip off the first word via:

sed -i "s|.*\t||" filename

But that is deleting both of the first 2 fields.

What's the right magic sed command?

Thanks
Greg

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[opensuse] Using sed to retrieve only the 2nd of 3 words on tab-separated line.

Greg Freemyer