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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tricky Sed Post 90413 by Perderabo on Tuesday 22nd of November 2005 11:42:31 AM
Old 11-22-2005
Look at this from your last line:
-e 's/|NULL|/|/g' -e 's/|*NULL|/|/g'
If I understand what you want, you should be doing
-e 's/|NULL|/||/g' -e 's/|*NULL|/||/g'

Except that first command handles stuff also handled by the second command. Remember that * means zero or more.
 

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