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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fixed Length records- Korne Shell Program. Post 302113955 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 11th of April 2007 11:41:11 AM
Old 04-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by nrajesh_2009
Hi Johnson,

Can you please post the same equivalent code using gnu gawk?

Code:
gawk '
   NR == 1 { len = length }
   len && len != length { error = 1; exit }
   END {
             if ( error == 0 ) print len
             else exit 1
          }
'

 

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zip_set_file_comment

ZIP_SET_FILE_COMMENT(3) 				     Library Functions Manual					   ZIP_SET_FILE_COMMENT(3)

NAME

       zip_set_file_comment - set comment for file in zip

LIBRARY

       libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <zip.h>

       int zip_set_file_comment(struct zip *archive, zip_uint64_t index); "const char *comment" "int len"

DESCRIPTION

       The  zip_set_file_comment function sets the comment for the file at position index in the zip archive to comment of length len.	If comment
       is NULL and len is 0, the file comment will be removed.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion 0 is returned.  Otherwise, -1 is returned and the error information in archive is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       zip_set_file_comment fails if:

	      [ZIP_ER_INVAL]
		  index is not a valid file index in archive, or len is less than 0 or longer than the	maximum  comment  length  in  a  zip  file
		  (65535).

	      [ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
		  Required memory could not be allocated.

SEE ALSO

       libzip(3), zip_get_archive_comment(3), zip_get_file_comment(3), zip_set_archive_comment(3)

AUTHORS

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

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