Bash CSV get a column?

Question

 row1    row2         row3
Hello,   World,    Hello World
World,   Hello,    World Hello

How do you grab the entire 2 words in bash? I have tried and all I could do is using echo $a tr -s ' ' | cut -d , -f 3 to get both words but each word will be put on its own line like:-

Hello
World
World
Hello

Is this is a .csv file, why are you using echo $a? Provide a clear verifiable input and an expected output — Inian
– Inian, Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 7:20

anubhava · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-08 07:17:41Z

1

Using awk with custom field separator as space or comma:

awk -F '[ ,]+' 'NR>1{print $1, $2}' file

Hello World
World Hello

answered Sep 8, 2017 at 7:17

anubhava

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