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extracting few characters from file

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i want to extract few characters from a flat file using special character || as field separator how to do it suggestions please

Name: James Boothe
Date: January 3, 2008 at 07:51:50 Pacific

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Here is a file with columns delimited by double bar characters: aaa||bbbbb||cc xxx||Happy New Year||yyyyy The following code will locate lines having "xxx" in column 1, and will print column 2 from each of those lines: awk -F"[|][|]" '$1=="xxx" {print $2}' infile Happy New Year

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