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# 1  
Old 04-19-2013
Remove few columns from pipe delimited file

I have file as below
Code:
column1|column2|column3|column4|column5|
fill1|fill2|fill3|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc2|abc3|abc4|abc5|
.
.
.
.

i need to remove column2,3, from that file

Code:
column1|column4|column5|
fill1|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc4|abc5|
.
.
.

# 2  
Old 04-19-2013
Code:
$ awk '{FS=OFS="|";print $1,$4,$5}' a.txt
lumn1|column2|column3|column4|column5|||
fill1|fill4|fill5
abc1|abc4|abc5

# 3  
Old 04-19-2013
OR...

Code:
$ cat file
column1|column2|column3|column4|column5|
fill1|fill2|fill3|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc2|abc3|abc4|abc5|
abc1|abc2|abc3|abc4|abc5|

Code:
$ awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}{$2=$3="";gsub(/[|]+/,"|")}1' file

column1|column4|column5|
fill1|fill4|fill5|
abc1|abc4|abc5|
abc1|abc4|abc5|

Code:
$ awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}{$2=$5="";gsub(/[|]+/,"|")}1' file

column1|column3|column4|
fill1|fill3|fill4|
abc1|abc3|abc4|
abc1|abc3|abc4|

# 4  
Old 04-19-2013
Code:
sed 's/|[a-zA-Z0-9]*|[a-zA-Z0-9]*//'  filename

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