The following is a links -dump of which I want to extract the table with all the columns in all the file... I tried using awk but failed
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Gabon GA GAB 266 Gambia GM GMB 270 Georgia GE GEO 268 Germany DE DEU 276 Ghana GH GHA 288 Gibraltar GI GIB 292 Greece GR GRC 300 Greenland GL GRL 304 Grenada GD GRD 308 Guadeloupe GP GLP 312 Guam GU GUM 316 Guatemala GT GTM 320 Guernsey GG GGY 831 Guinea GN GIN 324 Guinea-Bissau GW GNB 624 Guyana GY GUY 328 Haiti HT HTI 332 Heard Island and Mcdonald HM HMD 334 Islands Holy See (Vatican City State) VA VAT 336 Honduras HN HND 340 Hungary HU HUN 348 Iceland IS ISL 352 India IN IND 356 Indonesia ID IDN 360 Iran, Islamic Republic of IR IRN 364 Iraq IQ IRQ 368 Ireland IE IRL 372 Isle of Man IM IMN 833 Israel IL ISR 376 Italy IT ITA 380 Jamaica JM JAM 388 Japan JP JPN 392 Jersey JE JEY 832 Jordan JO JOR 400 Kazakhstan KZ KAZ 398 Kenya KE KEN 404 Kiribati KI KIR 296 Korea, Democratic People's KP PRK 408 Republic of Korea, Republic of KR KOR 410 Kuwait KW KWT 414 Kyrgyzstan KG KGZ 417 Lao PDR LA LAO 418 Latvia LV LVA 428 Lebanon LB LBN 422 Lesotho LS LSO 426 Liberia LR LBR 430 Libya LY LBY 434 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cat file | awk '{print $1,$2,$3}'> resultbut the output is not clean as there are white spaces in the 1st columns, thereby the contents are lost from the following columns