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Old 11-19-2019
Replace delimiter for a particular column in a pipe delimited file

I have an input file as below
Code:
Emp1|FirstName|MiddleName|LastName|Address|Pincode|PhoneNumber
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 || ADD2|123|000000000

Output :
Code:
1234|FirstName1|MiddleName2|LastName3| Add1 ,, ADD2|123|000000000
OR
1234,FirstName1,MiddleName2,LastName3, Add1 || ADD2,123,000000000


Last edited by vbe; 11-19-2019 at 02:15 PM..
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Old 11-19-2019
Welcome on board,

What have you tried so far?
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Old 11-20-2019
Replace all || with ,,
Code:
sed 's/||/,,/g'

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