Python pandas

My first choice is pandas in Python. However, below are some tools for quick and dirty solutions.

q

q -t -H 'select c1, c3 from file.txt'

cut

cut -d\t -f1,3 file.txt

awk

awk -F'\t' '{print $1 "\t" $3}' file.tsv 

Note: neither cut …

NOTE: the article talks about sampling "lines" rather than "records". If a records can occupy multiple lines, e.g., if any field contains a new line (\n), the following tutorial does not work and you have to fall back to more powerful tools such as Python or R.

Let's say …