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stu78

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Hi,

I want to use a Field Seperator of a directory structure;

like;

awk -F/opt/folder '{print}' file

How can I get this to work?

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Have you tried quoting it?
Code: 
awk -F[b]"[/b]/opt/folder[b]"[/b] '{print}' file


 
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nawk ' BEGIN { FS="/opt/folder"; }
{ printf "%s-%s\n",$1,$2; } ' file
 
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