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Old 08-27-2008
Help, need to extract columns from file

I have huge fixed width, text file in unix box and I need to extract columns found between the width 105 and 200 and output it to a new file.
Can anyone tell me how to extract it?
Thanks for your help.
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Old 08-27-2008
Use the cut command with the -c option and redirect the output to your new file, check the manpage of cut.

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