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Asked: 2026-05-21T07:53:10+00:00

I want to delete lines/rows which have less then or equal to 5 columns

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I want to delete lines/rows which have less then or equal to 5 columns or more than 7 colunms in txt file delimited with tab. This means I want to keep lines with just 6 columns in a tab-delimited files.

I prefer to sed and awk to do this job.

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  1. Editorial Team

    you can try

      awk -F"\t" 'NF==6' file >temp && mv temp file
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