Problem with awk command

[Creppy]

Hello every bodies,
I would like to cut a file composed of 999 columns which 1000 values in each column, and I've been thinking on using the command awk

When typing :
awk '{print $1}' latin_center_999_1000.txt > latin001

I copy easily the first row but I would like to code this process in order to stock a number of column in the next files.
For example, latin0015 will contain columns from 1 to 15
Which command should I use to realize that ?
I believe that something like

awk '{print $1something$15}' latin_center_999_1000.txt > latin001

does it, so does anyone have an idea ?

Regards

Michel

[tpl]

welcome to the forum

> write selected columns to file

the utility "cut" is designed for this: v. man cut