awk script help

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Name: ayon
Date: December 1, 2007 at 01:01:00 Pacific
Subject: awk script help
OS: Solaris2
CPU/Ram: UltraSPARC III / 2048M
Model/Manufacturer: SunBlade2000

Comment:

I have a file which has 2 lines of header information then a series of columns that are seperated by whitespace. How do I use awk to read this file, skip the header lines, extract columns 1, 2, 5 and then output these columns to a new file?

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Response Number 1

Name: fpmurphy
Date: December 1, 2007 at 02:38:53 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Try:
{
if ( NR > 2 ) { print $1, $2, $5 }
}

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