awk help for getting fields

Question

I have field like

a_b_c_d

I want as the output a b c_d, this query wont work for this

awk -F"_" <file> | '{print $1,$2,$3}'

Since it will only print a b c

Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-02 21:31:26Z

5

Try

awk -F"_" -f <file> '{ print $1" "$2" "$3"_"$4 }'

In other words,

$echo a_b_c_d | awk -F"_" '{ print $1" "$2" "$3"_"$4 }' a b c_d

The code in the brackets means

answered Jul 2, 2009 at 21:31

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2 Comments

Minor detail, but you can just do awk -F_ instead of awk -F"_".

You can golf it further with: awk -F_ '{ print $1, $2, $3"_"$4 }'