I use the following command to extract 2nd column from table1.txt and get output as output1.txt
awk '{ print $2 }' table.txt > output.txt
How to use loop for five files (table.txt, abc.txt, pqr.txt, skt.txt, mkt.txt) to extract 2nd column in respective output files (out_table.txt, out_abc.txt, out_pqr.txt, out_skt.txt, out_mkt.txt) ?