Awk examples
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ignore first columns and print rest
[maarten.tikal] ➤ echo 'column1 column2 column3 column4' | awk '{print substr($0, index($0,$3))}' column3 column4
sum all values in a column:
awk '{ SUM += $1} END {print SUM }'