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preserving quoted strings
I have a file with COMMA seperated fields but with embedded COMMA inside a field ex. Jim,"20 main street",555-1313,60 Tom,"10 washington, Madison, NY-100010",555-1212,26 I want to examine the content of each field and take action but I don't want awk to split on embedded COMMAs cat file | awk...
