On 7/14/20, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Bob Weber (12020-07-14): >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | tr -d '\\' | awk 'BEGIN { >> FS="|" } { printf " >> _S_AR=(\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n\"%s\"\n)\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5}' > > Have you considered that pipes without backslashes are not supposed to > be separators?
the thing is that that was the one liner passed to a find command which then I need to use as an array lbrtchx