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Print the second column (space-delimited) of a file.
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sed_print_second_column.sh
# Given my_file containing first line of "my_id my_value", this will print "my_value".
cat ./my_file | sed -En '1{s/^(\S+)\s+(.*)$/\2/g ; p}'
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