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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk stuff Post 302914116 by Scrutinizer on Friday 22nd of August 2014 04:00:04 AM
Old 08-22-2014
Assuming the first fields is empty / the file starts with a |

Bash:
Code:
while IFS=\| read -a fields
do
  unset fields[0]
  printf '|"%s"' "${fields[@]}"
  echo
done < file


---
General shell with 5 fields:
Code:
while IFS=\| read a b c d e
do
  printf '|"%s"' "$b" "$c" "$d" "$e"
  echo
done < file


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 08-22-2014 at 05:23 AM..
 

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