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I have a fixed width file of length 53. when is try to get the lengh of the record of that file i get 2 different answers.


awk '{print length;exit}' <File_name>


The above code gives me...

I pass a file as Input, read line by line and check for the length of a record using wc -c command. ex: 250.

If the record is less than the given length the script fails.

If all the records in...

Sorry i used wc -c but if the record contains \ it gives 1 less than the actual record length.

When I check the length for the records in the file, it does not give me the correct value. I used wc -l command.

Example records:

abcdefghij
abcd\efghij
abcdefghi

Expected output is:
10...

Both the soultion worked fine.. Thank you.. :) :)

I have two shell script one.sh and two.sh.

I want to call the script two.sh within in the script one.sh

I did the below way,


one.sh

echo "JOB STARTED"
echo "JOB START TIME: `date...

Thanks for both. Its is workinf fine.

Need to add end of line character to last record in a fixed width file.

When i take the record length of each line, for all the records it gives example like 200 except the last line as 199.
...

The command is working fine but when i redirect the output to a file at the actual end of record i am able to see Control M(^M) charater.


awk 'NR==FNR{if(length($0) >...

I have a file with different record length. The file as to be converted into fixed length by appending spaces at the end of record. The length should be calculated based on the record with maximum...

The below code do not appened spaces as many as my required length. When i gave length as 285, it append spaces upto 251 only. When i use printf command it shows 285.

But when i write the output...

#!/bin/ksh
FILE=$1
LEN=$2
echo | awk -v l="$LEN" -v file="$FILE" '{s="%-"l"s\n";printf(s,$0);}' file > temp1.txt;


I execte the script using the below command


sh -x Script.sh...

The parameters i need to pass are

FILE = <filepath>/partial.txt

When i replace the filepath it gives error as "cannot open the file for reading"

I need to pass values at runtime for the below awk command where

l is the length and partial.txt is the file name.


awk -v l=285 '{s="%-"l"s\n";printf(s,$0);}' partial.txt > temp1.txt;

I need to pass the values as external parameters, i.e., at runtime i want pass the values.

I need to pass the length and file name as parameters. Please help how to change the below code as per that,


awk -v l="15" '{s="%-"l"s\n";printf(s,$0);}' file > temp;

I want to make a script to read row by row and find its length. If the length is less than my required length then i hav to append spaces to that paritucular row. Each row contains special...