title: How to extract the first column from a tsv file?
body: <p>I have a file containing some data and I want to use only the first column as a stdin for my script, but I'm having trouble extracting it.
  I tried using this</p>
  
  <pre><code>awk -F"\t" '{print $1}' inputs.tsv
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it only shows the first letter of the first column. I tried some other things but it either shows the entire file or just the first letter of the first column.</p>
  
  <p>My file looks something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Harry_Potter    1
  Lord_of_the_rings    10
  Shameless    23
  ....
  </code></pre>