i can't cut the third col

SW_dist_intr    false              Enable SW distribution of interrupts              True
autorestart     true               Automatically REBOOT OS after a crash             True
boottype        disk               N/A                                               False
capacity_inc    1.00               Processor capacity increment                      False
capped          true               Partition is capped                               False
conslogin       enable             System Console Login                              False
cpuguard        enable             CPU Guard                                         True
dedicated       true               Partition is dedicated                            False
ent_capacity    2.00               Entitled processor capacity                       False
frequency       2656000000         System Bus Frequency                              False
fullcore        false              Enable full CORE dump                             True
fwversion       IBM,EL340_061      Firmware version and revision levels              False
id_to_partition 0X80000BAB8FC00001 Partition ID                                      False
id_to_system    0X80000BAB8FC00000 System ID                                         False
iostat          false              Continuously maintain DISK I/O history            True
keylock         normal             State of system keylock at boot time              False
log_pg_dealloc  true               Log predictive memory page deallocation events    True
max_capacity    2.00               Maximum potential processor capacity              False
max_logname     9                  Maximum login name length at boot time            True
maxbuf          20                 Maximum number of pages in block I/O BUFFER CACHE True
maxmbuf         0                  Maximum Kbytes of real memory allowed for MBUFS   True
maxpout         0                  HIGH water mark for pending write I/Os per file   True
maxuproc        2048               Maximum number of PROCESSES allowed per user      True
min_capacity    1.00               Minimum potential processor capacity              False
minpout         0                  LOW water mark for pending write I/Os per file    True
modelname       IBM,8203-E4A       Machine name                                      False
ncargs          128                ARG/ENV list size in 4K byte blocks               True
nfs4_acl_compat secure             NFS4 ACL Compatibility Mode                       True
pre430core      false              Use pre-430 style CORE dump                       True
pre520tune      disable            Pre-520 tuning compatibility mode                 True
realmem         16056320           Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes        False
rtasversion     1                  Open Firmware RTAS version                        False
sed_config      select             Stack Execution Disable (SED) Mode                True
systemid        IBM,02657AA64      Hardware system identifier                        False
variable_weight 0                  Variable processor capacity weight                False

i have this text and i need the third culmn but i used cut or awk i can't get the third field cause there are spaces in the third field can any one help me

It's a fixed width report, so just man cut (POSIX):

cut -c36-85

thanks it is work but not logic i can't every time i have text to count no of characters i can't i have like this file about 20 files
plz any one have another idea

Try this ,

sed -r "s/\s{2,}/|/g" file | cut -d '|' -f 3  

awk '{$1=$2=$NF=""}1' urfile

thanks but not work cause i am in aix

sed: Not a recognized flag: r
Usage: sed [-n] [-u] Script [File ...]
sed [-n] [-u] [-e Script] ... [-f Script_file] ... [File ...]

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thanks very much it is work , can u explain it to me to understand what u did ?

i need also the fourth col

THANKS

You can do this if you also need the last column...

awk '{for(i=3;i<=NF;i++) printf ($i ~ /True|False/?"\t"$i"\n":$i" ")}' infile

I just set first, second and last col to "" (empty), and export the rest.

If you need the fourth part also, you can use below code, but it will lost the format. All multi continue space will be replaced by one space.

awk '{$1=$2=""}1' urfile

If you still need keep the format, with your new request, Pludi's solution will be better.

cut -c36- < urfile