title: Removing columns in text file with Bash?
body: <p>I have a to write a script that remove the Idle column from the output of finger.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;finger
  Login    Name                 TTY  Idle  Login  Time   Office  Phone
  Billy    Billy Howard        *con  6:55  Fri    19:03
  Billy    Billy Howard         s00     5  Fri    19:11
  Billy    Billy Howard         s00        Sat    00:27
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried remove the extra spaces with tr and then using cut with a delimiter of a space to remove the column, but since Idle can have no value I sometimes get the wrong value since tr delimited the spaces were the idle time should be... Does anyone know how I can remove the Idle column?</p>