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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk stuff Post 302914089 by Don Cragun on Thursday 21st of August 2014 09:41:46 PM
Old 08-21-2014
You could try something like:
Code:
sed '	s/\\|/@/g
	s/^@/"@/
	s/@$/@"/
	s/^|/@"/
	s/|$/"@/
	s/|/"|"/g
	s/[^"@]$/&"/
	s/^[^"@]/"&/
	s/@/|/g' file

which if file contains:
Code:
|ABCD|EFGH|IJKL|MNOP
|ABCD|EF\|GH|IJKL|MNOP
ABC|D\|\|E|LMN|
\|\|\|\|

produces the output:
Code:
|"ABCD"|"EFGH"|"IJKL"|"MNOP"
|"ABCD"|"EF|GH"|"IJKL"|"MNOP"
"ABC"|"D||E"|"LMN"|
"||||"

 

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