in reply to using command line autosplit option

Another way, with fewer characters, using perl 5.10 (-E and say), -l and array slices: 
perl -lanE'say join"\t",@F[0..2]' file.txt

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Re^2: using command line autosplit option
by umasuresh (Hermit) on Feb 03, 2011 at 20:01 UTC
    Thanks much Toolic and Fletch!
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