Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

write in ebcdic format

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting write in ebcdic format
# 1  
Old 03-12-2010
write in ebcdic format
Hi - Is there a way to write the data in the ebcdic format. I mean I already have one file in the ebcdic format and I have to add a couple of rows to it in the ebcdic format. could any one please let me know how can I do that.
# 2  
Old 03-12-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmedwaseem2000
Hi - Is there a way to write the data in the ebcdic format. I mean I already have one file in the ebcdic format and I have to add a couple of rows to it in the ebcdic format. could any one please let me know how can I do that.
try something like this:
Code:
dd if=infile.ebcdic of=infile.ascii conv=ascii
echo Here is a new line>>infile.ascii
dd if=infile.ascii of=newfile.ebcdic conv=ebcdic

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Check if file is EBCDIC or ASCII format

So, i have this requirement where i need to check the file format, whether it's EBCDIC or ASCII, and based on format retrieve the information from that file: my file is: file1.txt-->this ebcdic file file2.txt-->ascii file i tried below code: file=file1.txt type="`file $file`" i get... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: gnnsprapa
7 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

EBCDIC Format to Normal String

Hi, I have EBCDIC format file and i wold like to convert normal string(user readable) in unix . The source having the binary IBM file format Sample Source Format: ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: koti_rama
3 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

EBCDIC Format to ASCII

Hi, we have source file with EBCDIC format(Main Frame files) where we receving from source system. I would like to convert the EBCDIC format file to unix systemformat(ex: .csv,txt ) I have wrote script like: dd if=<SRCPATH>yyy.xxx.RB065 of=<SRCPATH>/output.csv ibs=800 cbs=80... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: koti_rama
8 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Help! EBCDIC format to ASCII

Hi everyone, I have a 70MB EBCDIC file, with record length 102, block size 32742 and IBM standard label. I commanded dd if=input file of=outputfie ibs=32742 cbs=102 conv=ascii but I still don't get a viewable file under ASCII. Can anyone told me what's the problem? Do I need... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: hrchl86
12 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to write shell script for input file name format checking?

Hello, I had written a shell script that accepts input file as cmd line argument and process this file. if ; then if ; then . $1 LOGFILE="$LOG_FILE/MIG_BIOS.log"; get_input_file else ERROR_CODE=MSCRM0005_003 error "$ERROR_CODE : Input file $1 is not available"; exit... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Poonamol
3 Replies

6. IP Networking

read/write,write/write lock with smbclient fails

Hi, We have smb client running on two of the linux boxes and smb server on another linux system. During a backup operation which uses smb, read of a file was allowed while write to the same file was going on.Also simultaneous writes to the same file were allowed.Following are the settings in the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: swatidas11
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

write a perl script or kornshell reading a two files and outputting to comma format

Hello Can someone help me to write a perl script or kornshell reading a two files and outputting to comma format. Here is the two files listofdisks.txt id, diskname, diskgroup, diskisze(GB), FC 1, CN34, GRP1, 30, FC_CN34 2, CN67, GRP5, 19, 4, VD1, GRP4, 23, FC_VD1 6, CF_D1, ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: deiow
0 Replies

8. Programming

how to write a file to binary format in C ?

I'm in the Solaris environment. I want to write data to a file, but I don't want it to be easily read from the C shell. For example, here's my code: main () { FILE *fo; fo = fopen ("filename", "w"); fprintf (fo, "This is a test.\n"); fclose (fo); } Anyone can open up... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: serendipity1276
3 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to write script in compress format

i have the script how to write script in compress format in tar (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: naveeng.81
1 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

write data into a text file in bold format

Hi, can anyone help to write data into a text file in bold format and rollback to actual format. Thanks, Regards, Milton Y. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: miltony
1 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question