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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Split a line into next line Post 302896922 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 10th of April 2014 02:46:27 AM
Old 04-10-2014
The output is
Code:
emplid|empl_name|salary|hire_date
1111|gro|3000|01/01/2014
9867|ghgo|4000|01/03/2014
5342|dkguo|5000|02/01/2014
7452|ehrt|6000|01/04/2014
2937|kfgtr|8000|03/01/2014

WHAT?> is not part of the output, but rather a prompt by your shell ( the $PS2 prompt ) to ask for the next line after you enter a \ followed by enter.. So it is working as expected..

Try redirecting to a file and see for yourself


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Akshay's solution is working too, just if you used "append" instead of the first record, then it will not work, not because the first non-header record does not contain 1111, but because Akshay's script is testing for extra pipe (|) separated fields as are present in your original sample..
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-10-2014 at 03:57 AM..
 

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