Recipe: Printing nth word or column in a file or line

Print 5th field of every lines in a file
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$ awk '{ print $5 }' filename


$ ls -l | awk '{ print $1" :  " $8 }'
-rw-r--r-- :  delimited_data.txt 
-rw-r--r-- :  obfuscated.txt 
-rw-r--r-- :  paste1.txt 
-rw-r--r-- :  paste2.txt