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Old 03-29-2011
And another one:

Code:
awk '{
  for (i = 1; ++i < NF;)
    printf "%s", $i (i < NF - 1 ? OFS : ORS)
  }' infile

On Solaris use gawk, nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.

With Perl:

Code:
perl -lane'
  print join " ", @F[1..@F-2]
  ' infile

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