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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace delimited value with specific conditions Post 303007287 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 15th of November 2017 01:59:15 AM
Old 11-15-2017
The code Scrutinizer suggested should work on a correctly functioning awk, but GNU awk sometimes handles regular expressions slightly differently than the way they are specified in the standards. But, the error you are getting is coming from the Korn shell; not from awk and mismatched double-quotes inside a single-quoted string in a shell script should have absolutely no effect on the number of parentheses that the shell sees as shell operators (i.e., none).

Although, in theory, it shouldn't make any difference, please try the following slight modifications of Scrutinizer's suggestion:
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^["]|["]$/,"^",$i); gsub(/["]/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and:
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^\"|\"$/,"^",$i); gsub(/\"/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and let us know if either of these produce different results.
 

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BLAZE-LIST(1)						    BlazeBlogger Documentation						     BLAZE-LIST(1)

NAME

       blaze-list - lists blog posts or pages in the BlazeBlogger repository

SYNOPSIS

       blaze-list [-cpqrsCPSV] [-b directory] [-I id] [-a author] [-t title] [-T tag] [-d day] [-m month] [-y year] [-n number]

       blaze-list -h|-v

DESCRIPTION

       blaze-list lists existing blog posts or pages in the BlazeBlogger repository. Additionally, it can also display basic repository
       statistics.

OPTIONS

       -b directory, --blogdir directory
	   Allows you to specify a directory in which the BlazeBlogger repository is placed. The default option is a current working directory.

       -I id, --id id
	   Allows you to display a single blog post or a page with the specified id.

       -a author, --author author
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages by the selected author.

       -t title, --title title
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages with matching title.

       -T tag, --tag tag
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages with matching tag.

       -d day, --day day
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages from the specified day of a month. The value has to be in the "DD" form.

       -m month, --month month
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages from the specified month. The value has to be in the "MM" form.

       -y year, --year year
	   Allows you to list blog posts or pages from the specified year. The value has to be in the "YYYY" form.

       -n number, --number number
	   Allows you to specify a number of blog posts or pages to be listed.

       -p, --page
	   Tells blaze-list to list pages.

       -P, --post
	   Tells blaze-list to list blog posts. This is the default option.

       -S, --stats
	   Tells blaze-list to display statistics.

       -s, --short
	   Tells blaze-list to display each blog post or page information on a single line.

       -r, --reverse
	   Tells blaze-list to display blog posts or pages in reverse order.

       -c, --color
	   Enables colored output. When supplied, this option overrides the relevant configuration option.

       -C, --no-color
	   Disables colored output. When supplied, this option overrides the relevant configuration option.

       -q, --quiet
	   Disables displaying of unnecessary messages.

       -V, --verbose
	   Enables displaying of all messages. This is the default option.

       -h, --help
	   Displays usage information and exits.

       -v, --version
	   Displays version information and exits.

EXAMPLE USAGE

       List all blog post:

	 ~]$ blaze-list
	 ID: 11 | 2010-07-05 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: Join #blazeblogger on IRC
	     Tags:  announcement

	 ID: 10 | 2009-12-16 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: Debian and Fedora Packages
	     Tags:  announcement

	 etc.

       List all blog post in reverse order:

	 ~]$ blaze-list -r
	 ID: 1 | 2009-02-10 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: BlazeBlogger 0.7.0
	     Tags:  release

	 ID: 2 | 2009-02-11 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: BlazeBlogger 0.7.1
	     Tags:  release

	 etc.

       List all pages:

	 ~]$ blaze-list -p
	 ID: 5 | 2009-02-10 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: Downloads

	 ID: 4 | 2009-02-10 | Jaromir Hradilek

	     Title: Themes

	 etc.

       List each blog post on a single line:

	 ~]$ blaze-list -s
	 ID: 11 | 2010-07-05 | Join #blazeblogger on IRC
	 ID: 10 | 2009-12-16 | Debian and Fedora Packages
	 etc.

       Display a short version of blog statistics:

	 ~]$ blaze-list -Ss
	 There is a total number of 11 blog posts and 5 pages in the repository.

SEE ALSO

       blaze-config(1), blaze-add(1)

BUGS

       To report a bug or to send a patch, please, add a new issue to the bug tracker at <http://code.google.com/p/blazeblogger/issues/>, or visit
       the discussion group at <http://groups.google.com/group/blazeblogger/>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Jaromir Hradilek

       This program is free software; see the source for copying conditions. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
       WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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