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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk stuff Post 302914148 by Scrutinizer on Friday 22nd of August 2014 07:12:20 AM
Old 08-22-2014
Still assuming the first fields is empty / the file starts with a |

Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) gsub(/\|/,"\"|\"",$i); sub(/"/,x); sub(/$/,"\"")}1' FS='\\\\\\|' OFS='|' file

Code:
perl -pe 's/(?<!\\)\|/"|"/g; s/\\\|/|/g; s/^"//; s/$/"/' file


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@Jotne, Ravinder.. That output is not correct...

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