Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi ,

I have a file with 5 colums each are sererated by tab. I am reading each line and adding extra two columns , the value depends on 5th column..

Now am trying to store each and every record in another file..

using the command echo $line $6thcol $7th col

$line - readin the each record

My requirement is 6th and seventh column also be tab seperated . How to do that

Code:

echo -e "something\tsomethinelse"

Thanx a lot