Shell Programming and Scripting

SampleFile
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PATIENTID|FACILITY|................|TIME_LAST_VISITED_BY_MD|.....|STATUS|

awk -F '|'  '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++)
                { 
                     if($i=="TIME_LAST_VISITED_BY_MD")
                        {print i}
                } 
                exit
                }'  inputfile

$ tr '|' '\n' < infile| awk '/TIME_LAST_VISITED_BY_MD/{print NR}'

tr '|' '\n' < input file | awk '/Time_Last_Visited_By_MD/ {print NR}'

$ tr '|' '\n' < input file | awk '/Time_Last_Visited_By_MD$/ {print NR}'

tr '|' '\n' < input file | grep -n "Time_Last_Visited_By_MD"