Shell Programming and Scripting

1| England |end
2|  New Zealand   |end
3|Australia|end
4|   Some Made Up Country    |end
5| West Indies|end

England
New Zealand
Australia
Some Made Up Country
West Indies

BEGIN {
        FS = "|"
        OFS = "|"
}
{
gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "", $2); print $2
}

awk -F"[ \t]*[|][ \t]*" '{print $2}' inputfile

while IFS='|' read a b a ; do echo $b; done <inputfile

awk -F'|' '{print $2}' test.txt |sed 's/^[ ^t]*//;s/[ ^]*$//'

 
$ awk -F\| 'gsub(/^ */,"",$2){print $2}' input.txt
England 
New Zealand   
Australia
Some Made Up Country    
West Indies