Shell Programming and Scripting

        if [ -s "temp.$i" ]
        then
           cat temp.$i | head -1 # the file content appears fine 
           while read line1
           do
                 echo "$line1"   # the '\''s are being ignored in output
                 exit
          done < temp.$i
        fi

AM_DASHBOARD\MAIN\02RUN\RUNMISURE_E2E, sequence job  # ok
AM_DASHBOARDMAIN02RUNRUNMISURE_E2E, sequence job      #not ok

while read -r line
do
  echo "$line"
done < input_file

  echo $1  
  jobname=`echo $1 | awk -F',' '{print $1}'| awk -F'\' '{print $NF}'`
  echo "$jobname is jobname"

echo $1 | awk -F',' '{print $1}'| awk -F'\\' '{print $NF}

 
echo $1 | sed 's/.*\\\(.*\),.*/\1/'

echo $1 | awk -F',' '{print $1}'| awk -F'\\' '{print $NF}

jobname=`echo $1 | awk -F',' '{print $1}'| awk -F'\\' '{print $NF}`
echo $jobname

 
$ x="AM_DASHBOARD\MAIN\20RUN\RUNSURE_EEE, sequence job"
$ echo $x
AM_DASHBOARD\MAIN\20RUN\RUNSURE_EEE, sequence job
$ y=`echo $x|awk -F',' '{print $1}'| awk -F'\' '{print $NF}'`
$ echo $y
RUNSURE_EEE

# echo $x|awk -F'\' 'sub(",.*","",$4){print $4}'
RUNSURE_EEE

# echo $x|sed -r 's:.*\\(.*),.*:\1:'
RUNSURE_EEE