unix cut, remove first token

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Published on 2010-03-11T20:28:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/11 20:34 UTC
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I'm trying to use unix cut to remove the first two fields per line. I have input lines of of the form

(token)(whitespace)(token)(lots of text)

The problem is that there exit n tokens per line, so I can't do something like this

cut -f3,4,5,6,7,8,9

is there a way to tell cut to take everything except the specified fields

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