If you grab the values between the separators into a variable then echoing that variable without quoting it will "magically" condense the whitespace into one space per run of whitespace.
That doesn't work too well if the input is supposed to contain the asterisk, though, because that will be expanded as a wildcard.
Instead, you can use tr to change newlines to spaces:
Your example had two asterisks at the end in the first file; if that was an error, change the first line.
If your tr doesn't understand '\012' to mean newline, see its manual page, or search these forums for a solution; it has been posted multiple times, but there are too many different variations to summarize here.
Hi Experts,
I have a tab deliminated file as below
myfile.txt
Local Group Memberships *Administrators *Guests
I need data in below format starting from 4th position.
myfile1.txt
Administrators Guests
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