The following should give you what you want even if the filename contains white-space characters:
Note that echo on many systems will interpret some sequences of characters as escape sequences and perform various transformations that you don't want. Using printf as shown above instead of echo avoids that issue.
Scrutinizer,
I think gnnsprapa is saying that any of the underscores (not just the first one) could be hyphens instead of underscores. Your suggestion assumes that the number of words stored in the variable is a constant (which has not been stated) and that the last five words are separated by underscores only.
As long as the given value assigned to the variable f contains at least six words, the following should work:
with his version of bash or a recent ksh. The awk suggestion above should work even if there are only five words in the value assigned to f and should work with any shell using Bourne shell syntax.
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