:%!awk ‘{print $2 ” ” $3}’
This is a new one for me.
— Grant Taylor (@drscriptt@oldbytes.space) (@DrScriptt) December 19, 2018
From inside of vim:
:%!awk '{print $2 " " $3}'
It does exactly what I wanted.
I don't think I've run awk from inside of vim before. But I suspect I will do so again.