Hi disedorgue,

Thank you for your reply. This is working fine in shell. However it is my mistake that I did not mention the expected end result completely. I have a file which contains some data with pipe as separator. I need to extract the data from the file and then insert the fields as mentioned above. I am using the following:

Code:

awk  -F'|' 'BEGIN{OFS=";";} {print $1,$11,$12,$16;}' $SUCCESSFILE

This is why I wanted to use awk or sed. May be something like following:

Code:

awk  -F'|' 'BEGIN{OFS=";";} {print $1,$11,$12,$16;}' $SUCCESSFILE  | awk/sed command to insert field

Thanks
Angshuman