Shell Programming and Scripting

I need a Korn shell script which does the folllowing:-

If there is one "|" (pipe) delimited file so, the script should check the 5th field to be blank or not. if it is a blank tht entire line of the file should be redirected to another file. if the 5th field is not blank it should pass that.

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i tried something like this :-

Code:

cut -d "|" -f5 inputfile > files

but this is not providing the correct output as it is displaying only the 5th field not the entire line.

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Can anyone pls help on this?

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Code:

awk -F"|" '$5 == "" { print > "blankfile"; next } 1' inputfile > notblankfile

thanx Corona688

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i need one more help? can anyone please help?

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