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| From | Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... |
| Date | 2020-07-15 16:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <AsQA2-2PR-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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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delimiters with more than one character? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 15:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-07-14 15:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-14 15:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-14 15:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-07-14 15:20 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-14 15:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-14 15:20 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-14 17:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 12:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-15 14:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-15 14:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 14:40 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-15 14:50 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 16:20 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-15 16:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-15 16:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-15 17:50 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-15 15:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 17:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi@gmail.com> - 2020-07-15 17:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-16 12:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-16 13:40 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-16 14:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-16 16:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-17 04:50 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-17 10:50 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-17 13:20 +0200
tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-07-17 13:30 +0200
Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-17 18:20 +0200
Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-17 20:30 +0200
Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...) Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-18 07:20 +0200
Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-18 10:40 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-17 13:40 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-16 16:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-17 04:50 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-16 15:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2020-08-05 08:30 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-05 15:10 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2020-08-06 05:00 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-08-06 13:40 +0200
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ... John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2020-08-07 03:10 +0200
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