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Data How to take first word of each line in the file

In Unix how to take the word of the line as out put
pl help me
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Old 07-02-2008
Code:
awk '{print $1}' file

will print first word in every line of file.
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Old 07-02-2008
How to take first word of each line in the file

Hi Itworks,

Krishmaths thank you vermutch.

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Ramesh
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