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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting Characters at specific position in a line if the line is certain length Post 302268407 by vgersh99 on Monday 15th of December 2008 04:11:11 PM
Old 12-15-2008
Code:
nawk '
{
   if (length <= 1280) 
     print
   else
     print substr($0, 1, 102) substr($0,106, 1208 -106) substr($0, 1214)
}
' myFile > myNewFile

 

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