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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Handle special characters in awk -F Post 302942293 by Scrutinizer on Monday 27th of April 2015 08:24:24 AM
Old 04-27-2015
FWIW, this would work:
Code:
echo /a/b/c+/d | awk -F'/c\\+/d$' '{print $1}'

Single quotes and double escape of the +-character...

Or with double quotes:
Code:
echo /a/b/c+/d | awk -F"/c\\\+/d$" '{print $1}'

 

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