Another awk question. How to remove everything after the first word in each line? E.g., if we wanted to remove everything but the names in this input (FILENAME.txt):
Anna 123 09123 Main Street
Bob 109 09800 Smith Street
Joe 0981 123123 King Street
We can use awk like so:
awk ‘{ print $1 }’
e.g.:
cat FILENAME.txt | awk ‘{ print $1 }’
which will print:
Anna
Bob
Joe
Short and sweet.