title: Select a particular column using awk or cut or perl
body: <p>I have a requirement to select the 7th column from a tab delimited file. eg:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cat filename | awk '{print $7}'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The issue is that the data in the 4th column has multiple values with blank in between. example - The last line in the below output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user  \Adminis FL_vol Design         0         -       1       -
  group        0 FL_vol Design   19324481         -    3014       -
  user      \MAK FL_vol Design   16875161         -    2618       -
  tree       826 FL_vol Out Global Doc Mark     16875162         -    9618       - /vol/FL_vol/Out Global Doc Mark
  </code></pre>