Hi RudiC,

As u mentioned about the awk command, i tried using it, still i didn't get the desired result.

On running :

Code:

awk -F'|' '{print $1}' RS="" input file

My output result is only LSCRM:
But i want LSCRM:

Code:

1: This is my first application.
2: Today we did shell scripting automation for this app. 
3: It was really a good fun in doing so. 
4: Really good

.

As this the value user is supposed to give as an input.Any help highly appreciated !

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Hi Cragun,

I understood what you tried to explain me about 7 vertical bars.
And i also tried by creating test.txt file and ran the following commands.

But i have an input field as

Code:

LSCRM: 
1: This is my first application.
2: Today we did shell scripting automation for this app. 
3: It was really a good fun in doing so. 
4: Really good.

So, to cut All those 4 lines together and store it in a varaible, which command or which delimiter shall i use?

I dont want to have in f1|f2|f3|f4|f5|f6|f7 this format.

It should be

Code:

f1
1:
2:
3:
4:    | (Means f1 ends after line 4)
f2
1:
2:
3:   |( f2 ends after line 3)

Thanks