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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find the number of column in the text file...? Post 302209529 by psiva_arul on Friday 27th of June 2008 08:11:16 AM
Old 06-27-2008
How to find the number of column in the text file...?

Hi,

i have text file with ~ seperated columns. it is very huge size of file,
in the file sompulsary supposed to has 20 columns with ~ seperated.
so how can i find if the file has 20 column in the all rows...?

Sample file:

APA+VU~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~APA.N O 20081017 120.00 AP~~~USD~US~~~7.650000
APV+JY~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~AAPL.O O 20081017 230.00 AC~~~USD~US~~~3.125000
APV+VL~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~AAPL.O O 20081017 160.00 AP~~~USD~US~~~9.750000
AT000000STR1~08~B28DT41~02~~~05~30~~~~STRV.VI~~~EUR~AT~~~48.990000
AT0000606306~08~B0704T9~02~~~05~30~~~~RIBH.VI S~~~EUR~AT~~~84.580000
AT0000612601~08~B067M97~02~~~05~30~~~~ICEL.VI S~~~EUR~AT~~~31.900000~20~21

Let me know if need more info on this

Regards,
MPSSmilie
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. Column exits 0 on success, >0 if an error occurred. ENVIRONMENT
COLUMNS The environment variable COLUMNS is used to determine the size of the screen if no other information is available. EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY HH:MM/YEAR NAME " ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. AVAILABILITY
The column command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. BSD
June 6, 1993 BSD
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