Question

I have got similar question answerd on here before, but this time, it is a little more challenging for me, all what I need is to remove | between name “\WAPNER| john | M\”

it will be a plus to remove the back slashes too.

file

10.46|5060|100002366551140|\WAPNER| john | M\ |100002366551750

Desired output

 10.46|5060|100002366551140|\WAPNER john  M\ |100002366551750

it will be perfect if your solution will also work with names with single slash 🙂

 10.46|5060|100002366551140|\WAPNER|  M\ |100002366551750

output will be

 10.46|5060|100002366551140|\WAPNER M\ |100002366551750

Thank you

Answer 1

This might work for you (GNU Sed):

sed -r '/\\[^\\]*\\/{s//\n&\n/;h;s/[\\|]//g;G;s/.*\n(.*)\n.*\n(.*)\n.*\n/\2\1/}' file