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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace pipe <|> with comma <,> in a column Post 302546396 by yabhi_22 on Thursday 11th of August 2011 06:16:35 AM
Old 08-11-2011
Hey,

Since the columns whose delimiter's are to be replaced are fixed so their position will also be fixed in your input file.
In that case you can work with below script

Code:
cat /dev/null > file1.tmp

while read line
do
    line1=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f1,2`
    line2=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f3` ##
    line3=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f4,5`
    line4=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f6` ##
    line5=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f7`
    line6=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f8` ##
    
    echo "$line1,$line2,$line3,$line4,$line5,$line6" >> file1.tmp
done < file1.txt

cat file1.tmp > file1.txt

The above code is w.r.t your example of updating column 3,6 and 8
Let me know if solves your question.
 

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