09-06-2011
Thanks for the nawk trick.
Sorry. I was not much clear earlier. Its not necessary that every entry between pipes will contain only 4 fields seperated by colon (
. We might have more 5 or 6 or any number of fields. So probably $4 won't be a good idea.
Moreover,
nawk is not installed on our linux boxes and we don't want to install it extra when sed trick is solving the purpose. We would stick to sed.
Please help me understanding original sed trick I pasted as to how its working ?
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