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# 1  
Old 05-24-2010
Printing bytes
Hi,

I have packed fields for which I am trying to print bytes. when I try cut -b2 it does print the 2nd byte besides that it also prints additional byte that I am not aware offSmilie data looks something like this

Code:
Input:
135
246

when I try cut -b2 it gives me

Code:
30
4A

but I need the output as

Code:
3
4

# 2  
Old 05-24-2010
Weird... try: cut -b 2-2
# 3  
Old 05-24-2010
doesnt help - Any other trick???
# 4  
Old 05-24-2010
how 'bout:
Code:
LANG=C cut -b 2-2 myFile

# 5  
Old 05-24-2010
still the same. Smilie

Well, I am not sure why this is behaving like this with the packed decimal field????
# 6  
Old 05-24-2010
Please show us the output of:
Code:
uname -a
locale

You do realize that a packed decimal field has bytes that are unprintable - assuming this is one of the IBM packed formats.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iserie...0925083170.htm
# 7  
Old 05-24-2010
its AIX XXXXXXXXXXX 3 5 00C9C5204C00

LANG=en_GB
LC_COLLATE=en_GB
LC_CTYPE=en_GB
LC_MONETARY=en_GB
LC_NUMERIC=en_GB
LC_TIME=en_GB
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB
LC_ALL=

yes, I do understand that packed decimals would have unprintable characters. However, I was refering to the bytes in it. so, does that mean cut doesnt work with different formats?
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