delete a column with awk or sed
awk, sed
Solution
This might work for you (GNU sed):
sed -i -r 's/\S+//3' file
If you want to delete the white space before the 3rd field:
sed -i -r 's/(\s+)?\S+//3' file
Problem
I have a file with three columns. I would like to delete the 3rd column(in-place editing). How can I do this with awk or sed? ``` 123 abc 22.3 453 abg 56.7 1236 hjg 2.3 ``` Desired output ``` 123 abc 453 abg 1236 hjg ```