There is no standard maximum, although the ARG_MAX constant limits how long a command line can be. Do you get "command line too long" errors when running this script? In this particular case, you can probably simply avoid using echo altogether:
Code:
while db2 +cp -x fetch from c1
do
: nothing
done | tr -s " "
Maybe this doesn't even have to run in a loop at all -- if you can change the db2 invocation to retrieve all lines at once, you can take out the while loop, too.
I have a flat file and need to count no of records in the file less the header and the trailer record.
I would appreciate any and all asistance
Thanks
Hadi Lalani (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have two files say file1 and file2.
I want to check the number of records in file1 and if its atleast 2 (i.e., 2 or greater than 2 ) then I have to check records in file2 .If records in file2 is atleast 1 (i.e. if its not empty ) i have to set some conditions .
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I'm new in unix scripting and I've a problem with a script... :confused:
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Hi everyone.
I am a newbie to Linux stuff. I have this kind of problem which couldn't solve alone. I have a text file with records separated by empty lines like this:
ID: 20
Name: X
Age: 19
ID: 21
Name: Z
ID: 22
Email: xxx@yahoo.com
Name: Y
Age: 19
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I have a Unix csv file which has long records ie the record length is more than 80 so it goes to the next line.So when its in unix though it spans to two or three lines it still counts it as one record.
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Please if I can provide help.
I have a file structure of a header record and "N" detail records.
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One for the header
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
while
while(n) Tcl Built-In Commands while(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
while - Execute script repeatedly as long as a condition is met
SYNOPSIS
while test body
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The while command evaluates test as an expression (in the same way that expr evaluates its argument). The value of the expression must a
proper boolean value; if it is a true value then body is executed by passing it to the Tcl interpreter. Once body has been executed then
test is evaluated again, and the process repeats until eventually test evaluates to a false boolean value. Continue commands may be exe-
cuted inside body to terminate the current iteration of the loop, and break commands may be executed inside body to cause immediate termi-
nation of the while command. The while command always returns an empty string.
Note: test should almost always be enclosed in braces. If not, variable substitutions will be made before the while command starts execut-
ing, which means that variable changes made by the loop body will not be considered in the expression. This is likely to result in an
infinite loop. If test is enclosed in braces, variable substitutions are delayed until the expression is evaluated (before each loop iter-
ation), so changes in the variables will be visible. For an example, try the following script with and without the braces around $x<10:
set x 0
while {$x<10} {
puts "x is $x"
incr x
}
EXAMPLE
Read lines from a channel until we get to the end of the stream, and print them out with a line-number prepended:
set lineCount 0
while {[gets $chan line] >= 0} {
puts "[incr lineCount]: $line"
}
SEE ALSO
break(n), continue(n), for(n), foreach(n)
KEYWORDS
boolean value, loop, test, while
Tcl while(n)