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File1:

27/07/2014 10.10.03 Breaker1 was closed by Mr. A.Basu Spectrum ui6dms
29/07/2014 04.50.53 Breaker1 was opened by Mr. D.Gupta Spectrum ui6dms and one note added
30/08/2014 03.20.01 EarthSwitch was closed by Mr. K.Saha Spectrum ui1dms
01/09/2014 08.10.39 EarthIsolator was closed by Mr. R.Das Spectrum ui3dms

File2:

27/07/2014 Breaker1 was closed by Mr. A.Basu ui6dms
29/07/2014 Breaker1 was opened by Mr. D.Gupta ui6dms
30/08/2014 EarthSwitch was closed by Mr. K.Saha ui1dms
01/09/2014 EarthIsolator was closed by Mr. R.Das ui3dms

I have more than 100 lines in file1 and I want the output as file2.

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I have tried using cut command but unable to produce the desired result. Then I have tried cat file1 | awk {printf $1,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$10}. @John –  pmaipmui Jun 29 at 14:07
    
just change printf with print. Also cat is redundant. –  taliezin Jun 29 at 14:11

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The following command yields the requested output:

cut -d ' ' -f 1,3-10 file1
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