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Silly bash function I use all the time.

  function f {
    awk '{print $'$1'}'
  }

  cat tab-separated | f 2 > just-the-2nd-column

cut -f2 tab-separated > just-the-2nd-column

I have a script much like cut, but which can reorder and duplicate fields.

doesn't work if it's any-amount-of-whitespace separated

-d'<tab>'

Nope: echo 'a b' | cut -d' ' -f2 a b

load "tab-separated" ( :f1:::'\t', :f2:::'\t', :f3::: ) as x;

create "just-the-2nd-column" from x ( :f2::: );