Shell Programming and Scripting

awk '{print $1 - $5}' somefile
which is printing $1 $2 $3 $4 $5

use for loop.

nawk '
BEGIN {
begin=1
end=5
         }
{
for (i=begin;i<=end;i++) {
print $i
}

'  input_file > output_file

note:- you can change the variable "begin,end" as you want.

cut -f1-5 urfile
cut -f6-10 urfile

until [ $j -gt $totalwords ]; do
j2=$(($j + 4))
echo -n "$(sed -n ${i}p $curfile |cut -d" " -f$j-$j2)" >>${curfile}_2
echo -n " $(sed -n $(($RANDOM % $totalines2 +1))p keys) " >>${curfile}_2
j=$(($j2 + 1))
done