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Try system()...though i am not sure how exactly to do it!

awk '{ printf "\"%s\"\n", $0 }' file

awk ' { print "%s,%s,%s", substr($0,1,5), substr ($0,6,10), substr($0,11,7) }' inputfile > outputfile

Try this if you have a very big file (say 100k records)

cut -c1-9 file > tempfile1
cut -c10-15 file | tr -cd "\n" "X" > tempfile2
cut -c15- file > tempfile3

paste -d"" tempfile1 tempfile2...

You ca even go for Awk, it can give you more control over fields!!

R u sure BOFH?

Check http://unix.com/showthread.php?t=35510 for answer

I guess we can doit by:
1. shift for multiples of ten
or
2. Assign the arguments' list ($*) and using cut (though might fail in few cases)

Any better alternatives UNIX gurus?

Thank You! :)

Hi Gurus,

I am tryin to get the nth argument/parameter ( n being calculated in runtime).
I want to assign tghis value to a variable say myvar. How do i do it? I am struggling to get proper escape...

Wil all lines in a file have same number of columns?

Check man pages for test...

Hi Every1,

Is there othr way to do the same, because awk will traverse each line and might become slow in case of very huge input file.

Correct me if I am wrong!

Hey Thank you anbu :)

But I have two question? :confused:
Can you please clearify them.

1. I thought only single slash is required for escaping, then whats the meaning of double slash.

2....

Only awk is working fine. However, while assigning the same to variable, it is not working.

My Sample Inputfile is as shown below:

MyAdd1 MyAdd2 ...

It is a variable.

:confused: Hi UNIX gurus,

I am facing a typical problem while assigining while assigining output of awk to a variable.

I have a fixed length file say myinputfile.txt

When I allow the...

Hi UNIX gurus,

I am facing a typical problem while assigining while assigining output of awk to a variable.

I have a fixed length file say myinputfile.txt

When I allow the value/output of an...

What distinguishes Header and data? Is there a fixed list of Headers or was the input file generated after pasting your several hundred files? Can you explain the exact requirements?

Use:

tr -cd "0123456789"

Thnks 4 ur suggestion.
Iwil convert it into a csv.

There are going to be a lot of manipulations only if couple of fields' values.

Now if the file was a delimited, i could have written something like

awk '$2=something && $3=somthingelse { some...

Say the file format is like:

Record length: 1-30

Fields 1-10 > Emp ID
Fields 11-20 > Emp Name
Fields 21-30 > Contact No

I want 2 perform some awk operations.
Is there any option like -F...

Hi Unix Champs,

I want to awk on a fixed length file.
Instead if the file was a delimited file, then I could have used -F and then could have easily done manipulation on the fields.
How do i do...

I meant use Sed or perl to replace that Single tab by Multiple tabs.

Do let me kno if it dosnt wrk.

Hey m not trying 2 cross ne1....

m jus askin 4 knowledge....wont this hav performance issue as compared to cut?

Which one is betr...i had a similar thing done for 150k records, so wud prefer...