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06-05-2006

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create control file in UNIX

UNIX gurus:

Following is what I am trying to do:

I need to create a control file for another file that I am creating. The information needed in the control file is the date in YYYYMMDD format and then the number of records in the other file right justified and lpadded with spaces of 20.

So say I have a file a.dat and it has 200 records.
I need to create a control file a.ctl having the following data.

20060605 200

I can only use UNIX commands as I am not allowed to use any scripts. I know date +'%Y%m%d' will give me the date in YYYYMMDD format and wc -l <filename> would give me record count but how would I go about piping the output of the above to one control file?

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