how not to print the 4th field from a text file with six fields
 

I have a file with six fields. However I do not want to print 4th field. Is there any way ?

First thing that came to my mind:

awk '{ print $1 $2 $3 $5 $6 }' sixfieldfile.txt

Yeah..surely I can do this...but it is cumbersome if I have to do the same thing in a file which contatins more then 15 fields and I just need to skip one....


Is there any option which tell awk not to print one of the field.

thanks....

You can script in awk. I'd go with 'man awk' for a couple hours :)

I'm not that savvy with it...