in reply to perl one liner print columns 2.. last
Works for me. I would suggest that you show us (an extract) of your input file.
echo 1 2 3 4 5 6|perl -lane 'print $F[1]..$F[-1]' 23456
Are your columns separated by whitespace?
Update: Of course, this doesn't work, for the reasons given by LanX in his reply to this (too hasty) posting.
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