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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers change field separator only from nth field until NF Post 302688141 by agama on Friday 17th of August 2012 10:28:10 PM
Old 08-17-2012
I think this is what you are looking for:

Code:
awk -F '|' '
    {
        for( i = 1; i < NF; i++ )
            printf( "%s%s", $(i), i > 3 ? ";" : "|" );
        printf( "%s\n", $(i) );
    }
' input-file >output-file

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SYNOPSIS

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