Awk: print all other columns but not $1, $2 and $3

Question

Too cumbersome:

awk '{print " "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8" "$9" "$10" "$11" "$12" "$13}' things

Answer 1

Try this:

awk '{ $1=""; $2=""; $3=""; print $0 }'

Answer 2

echo 1 2 3 4 5| awk '{ for (i=3; i<=NF; i++) print $i }'

Answer 3

use cut

$ cut -f4-13 file

or if you insist on awk and $13 is the last field

$ awk '{$1=$2=$3="";print}' file

else

$ awk '{for(i=4;i<=13;i++) printf $i" "}' file