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Thanks Kato, that works just fine. Let me see if I can dissemble this.

NF checks to see that there are less then four fields(columns).
If so, save that line and go read the next line
Else...

I have some data, each record (line) ends with a line feed (\n). Each field is pipe (|) delimited.

1|short desc|long text|2001-01-01 01:01
2|short desc| long
text |2002-02-02 02:02
...

>whoami
eric

>sudo echo $( whoami )
eric


How do I know that sudo was being used?

Recently I was on an operational call and heard the people running my code placing the code in the /tmp directory and running as root. I had not planned on that. So I want to add some checks to my...