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Thanks for help, it's working
Do you know how to substitute in awk
in field $5 replace all ":" with null string?

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Originally Posted by pp56825

Thanks for help, it's working
Do you know how to substitute in awk
in field $5 replace all ":" with null string?

Do you want to replace all ":" in $5 with nulls

Code:

awk 'NR==1; NR > 1 {gsub(":","",$5);print $0 | "sort -t\| -nrk 1,1"}' file

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