Cut output to same byte position Post: 302097272

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

byte count and cut command

1. Is there a way to count the number of bytes of a variable? example: abc@yahoo.com is 13 bytes 2. Cut command only allows one byte for delimiter example: cut -f1 -d'.' delimited by period. Is there a way to have two or more characters in the delimiter field? thanks in adavance. :)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut position as a variable

Hi All, I wish to cut an input by using the below command but i would want to have the cut position as a variable. For eg, the position number is 11 now and i wish that this number is being assigned to a variable before putting into the cut function. Can this be done ? Can any expert help?...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check if 2 files are identical byte-to-byte?

In my server migration requirement, I need to compare if one file on old server is exactly the same as the corresponding file on the new server. For diff and comm, the inputs need to be sorted. But I do not want to disturb the content of the file and need to find byte-to-byte match. Please...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove a byte(Last byte from the last line)

Hi All Can anyone please suggest me how to remove the last byte from a falt file .This is from the last line's last BYTE. Please suggest me something. Thank's and regards Vinay

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Perl- Output file is always 0 byte

Hi all, I am new to perl programming. However i have a script that connects to the database and spools that into an output file. Strange thing is that sometimes this script works and sometimes the ouput spool file is always 0 byte. I have verified the sql query and the query always returns...

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut multiple data based on character position

How to extract multiple data based on character position. I need to fetch from 7-9 and 22-26 and there is no delimiter for 22-26 since it is part of the column. The file may have more than 1000 character long.I managed to pull any one but not both for example test data 12345 zxc vbnmlk...

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to cut line from certain position?

Hi Gurus, I want to cut my file from 27th charactor to the end of line. can anybody give some unix command to do this. Thanks in advance

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Cut two individual position and summ

Hi All, I am having a huge file file. I need to cut the below column and do the below calculation I did the below command and able to do on full databased no on the individual based any help on doing each row by row cut -c 52-56 myfile | awk '{total = total + $1}END{print total}'...

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Print byte position of extended ascii character

Hello, I am on AIX. When I encounter extended ascii characters and special characters on a file I need to print.. Byte position, actual character and line number. Is there a simple command that can give me the above result ? Thanks in advance

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut command with dynamic passing of delimiter and position values

Hi All, We have a requirement of picking nth position value by using cut command. value would be delimited by any symbols. We have to pass delimited value and postition to get the value in a string. ex. echo "A,B,C,D,E" |cut -d "," -f3 echo "A|B|C|D|E"|cut -d "|" -f2 Kindly frame the...

LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

igawk

IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME

       igawk - gawk with include files

SYNOPSIS

       igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
       igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).

       AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like

	      @include getopt.awk

       in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.

OPTIONS

       See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.

EXAMPLES

       cat << EOF > test.awk
       @include getopt.awk

       BEGIN {
	    while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
		 ...
       }
       EOF

       igawk -f test.awk

SEE ALSO

       gawk(1)

       Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.

AUTHOR

       Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgawk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Volatile	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Free Software Foundation					    Nov 3 1999								  IGAWK(1)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

byte count and cut command

Discussion started by: hemangjani

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cut position as a variable

Discussion started by: Raynon

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check if 2 files are identical byte-to-byte?

Discussion started by: krishmaths

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove a byte(Last byte from the last line)

Discussion started by: vinayrao