Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:11:08AM -0400, Bob Weber wrote:
> Which is why I showed this:
>
> tr -s '\\\|' '\|'
>
> which replaces \| with a single character which is known not to be in the input data and usable as a awk field separator. It just happens to be a |
You misunderstood my point. The | character COULD be in the input data.
So could the \ character.
What does your command do with input that contains standalone | and \
characters?
unicorn:~$ echo '| \ |\ \| |' | tr -s '\\\|' '\|'
| | | | |
The wrong thing.
The tr command is never going to be suited to identifying multi-character
delimiter strings. It wasn't built for that. It's simply the wrong
tool for this job.
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