Shell Programming and Scripting

[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ echo $var |awk 'BEGIN{FS="[&][&]"}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){print $i}}'
/var/x/www
 /usr/x/share/doc
 /etc/x/logs
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ echo $var |awk 'BEGIN{FS="[&][&]"}{gsub(" ","",$0);for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){print $i}}'
/var/x/www
/usr/x/share/doc
/etc/x/logs
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$

$ a=1
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ [[ $a -eq 0 ]] && echo "OK" || echo "KO"
KO
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ a=0
[ctsgnb@shell ~]$ [[ $a -eq 0 ]] && echo "OK" || echo "KO"
OK

double pipe means "OR"

echo $NEW_PATH|awk 'BEGIN{FS="[&][&]"}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) find $i -mtime +$RET -exec rm {} \;}'

awk: BEGIN{FS="[&][&]"}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) find $i -mtime +$RET -exec rm {} \;}
awk:                                                                     ^ syntax error
awk: BEGIN{FS="[&][&]"}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) find $i -mtime +$RET -exec rm {} \;}
awk:                                                                        ^ backslash not last character on line

#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh

# Set a string variable.
pathlist="/var/x/www|/usr/x/share/doc|/etc/x/logs"

# Set the Input Field Separator. 
IFS='|'

# Create an array, with elements automatically parsed by the IFS string.
set -A parsed_pathlist_array $pathlist

# Prove it works.
print "1: ${parsed_pathlist_array[0]}"
print "2: ${parsed_pathlist_array[1]}"
print "3: ${parsed_pathlist_array[2]}"

exit 0