title: How to delete columns?
body: <p>I have generated the following text file below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fe120b99164f151b28bf86afa6389b22 -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 186 2010-03-14 19:26 Descript.txt
  41705ea936cfc653f273b5454c1cdde6 -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey  30 2010-03-14 20:29 listof.txt
  0e25cca3222d32fff43563465af03340 -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey  28 2010-03-14 23:35 sedexample.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test1.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test2.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test3.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test4.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test5.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-02-16 15:11 test6.txt
  f5c7f1856249d0526be10df5bd5b895a -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey  26 2010-03-13 14:13 testingfile.txt
  d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey   0 2010-03-15 00:28 uniquelist.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Basically I would like to get rid of the access, amount column, user and group columns.  In other words, I want rid of columns 3,4,5.  I have tried using cut to keep the columns that I do want and having " " as my delimiter however because of the file size figures, it messes up using "space" as a delimiter.  Any advice would be much appreciated!  Oh just to add, I would like to save the output as another text file.  Many thanks!</p>