This is because there are multiple spaces and cut
can just handle them one by one.
You can start from the 5th position:
$ cut -d' ' -f 1,5- file
ATOM HD13 ILE 206 9.900 15.310 13.450 0.0196 1.4870
ATOM C ILE 206 10.870 16.560 17.500 0.8343 1.9080
ATOM OXT ILE 206 11.780 15.734 17.425 -0.8190 1.6612
ATOM O ILE 206 9.929 16.225 18.095 -0.8190 1.6612
Or squeeze spaces with tr -s
like below (multiple spaces will be lost, though):
$ tr -s ' ' < file | cut -d' ' -f1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
ATOM HD13 ILE 206 9.900 15.310 13.450 0.0196 1.4870
ATOM C ILE 206 10.870 16.560 17.500 0.8343 1.9080
ATOM OXT ILE 206 11.780 15.734 17.425 -0.8190 1.6612
ATOM O ILE 206 9.929 16.225 18.095 -0.8190 1.6612
Note you can indicate from 3
to the end with 3-
:
tr -s ' ' < file | cut -d' ' -f1,3-
In fact I would use awk
for this:
awk '{$2=""; print}' file
or just
awk '{$2=""} 1' file