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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk with multiple character delimiter Post 302499792 by rajesh_pola on Friday 25th of February 2011 11:39:19 AM
Old 02-25-2011
first replace the multi charecter with one spl charecter.
then use that as the delimiter.
Code:
echo '"toto"||"ta|ta"||"titi"' |sed "s/$val/,/g"

regards
rajesh

Last edited by radoulov; 02-25-2011 at 12:40 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please!
 

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