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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cut not working in a loop Post 302368281 by KME on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 01:30:05 PM
Old 11-04-2009
Methyl,
Thank you so much for helping. I'm still having problems but the additional quotes were very insiteful, wierd but insiteful. I was able to cut in teh loop but I was never able to send the line to the function. That is ok however because i was able to get each field from the string as if it was awk $1,$2,etc..

However, my call to the FindPath3 function is now broken and i have no idea why. It gets called but the ${1} is blank/ i've tried several different formats with the quotes with the parameter and echo statement but no luck. Any more ideas. I realize there are possibly other ways to accomplish my task, but my objective is to learn how to pass these parameters in the functions as well as achieve the end result. I'll need this ability for other code.

Code:
 
    #!/usr/bin/ksh
 
function FindPath3 {
echo "here: ${1}"
 find /u03/hsun -name ${1} 
}
function MyPrint {   
tfile=`echo "${2}"`
 echo "tfile in myprint: ${2}"
 tPath= `FindPath3 test1a2.sas7bdat`
print $1,$2,$3,$4,$tPath > /home/kemard/Test3_OP.txt
} 
 while read line0
     do 
     #echo "$line0"
     MyPrint $line0
   done < /u03/kemard/BaseData.txt

BTW, in order to get the cut to work i had to use the quotes and feed the cut with a pipe rather than pass it from the right side:
Code:
 ## lineValue3=`echo "${line0}" | cut -f2 -d ' ' `

 

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dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

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