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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers create control file in UNIX Post 302075621 by Ygor on Monday 5th of June 2006 11:56:16 PM
Old 06-06-2006
What did you try? What shell are you using? This is bash, but should also work in ksh...
Code:
printf '%s%20s\n' $(date '+%Y%m%d') $(wc -l < a.dat) > a.ctl

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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