* A <born.to.b.wyld@gmail.com>
| > awk '{ n = $1; $1 = "" ; sub("^ +",""); while ( n-- ) print }' test.txt
| Thanks. Those suggestions help.

Just for the record: note that changing $1 might have an impact on the
rest of the line if the other fields are separated by more than one
space:

echo "1 2 4 5 6" | awk '{$1 = ""; print}'
=> 2 4 5 6
and not " 2 4 5 6" as one might expect.

YMMV
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