Also see basic Unix utilities like cut / paste (and colrm if your *nix has it, not sure if MacOS does) as these do the same column selection and printing and su

Also see basic Unix utilities like cut / paste (and colrm if your *nix has it, not sure if MacOS does) as these do the same column selection and printing and support simple options for delimiter and field number selection instead of writing a parser. cut -d’ ‘ -f 1,2 < some file.txt