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Solutions that do not rely on the fixed position of the columns:

This will probably be a wee bit slower, but won't require any advance knowledge of the number of columns, nor their position. It...

cut -c23- infile |awk '{print $1}'

A Perl solution:


$
$
$ cat f30
col1 col2 col3 col4 col5
xdf sdee sdff cfdd
ddd rfg fgt grf drft
ddd rfg fgt grfffff drft
...

See if this helps you:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
cut -c23- File | while read mFourth mRest; do
echo ${mFourth}
done

Maybe if you used code tags it would be clearer... Check this video tutorial is you are not sure how to use code tags:...