Deleting columns from a file with awk or from command line on linux

Question

How can I delete some columns from a tab separated fields file with awk?

c1 c2 c3 ..... c60

For example, delete columns be

Answer 1

Perl 'splice' solution which does not add leading or trailing whitespace:

perl -lane 'splice @F,3,27; print join " ",@F' file

Produces output:

c1 c2 c30 c31