How to handle the delimiter unit seperator in Unix

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How to handle the delimiter unit seperator in Unix..

Answer / srikanth

create script test.txt with | seperated

The below commands can be used to get the fields values:

awk -F"|" '{print $1}' test.txt

cat sri.txt | cut -d"|" -f1

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How to handle the delimiter unit seperator in Unix..

Answer / pitambar mishra

Different types of command using delimiter :
1. cut -d "|" -f6 emp.lst
d : delimiter or field separator
2. sort -t "|" -nk6 emp.lst
t : delimiter or field separator
3. awk -F "|" '{print $6}' emp.lst
F : delimiter or field separator

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