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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers I don't want to truncate trailing spaces and ^M at the end of line Post 302381072 by Shobana_s on Thursday 17th of December 2009 05:41:21 AM
Old 12-17-2009
Thanks for your help!

Here are the details that you requested

Sample lines from input file:
002009101307350520093320091013335 ^M
0102654N3FKAA20091013S0013200000001 ^M
0233L07A01051624843060000100000001 ^M
0233L07A02050869301010000200000001 ^M
.......

Expected output in new file:
002009101307350520093320091013335 ^M
0102655N3FKAA20091013S0013200000006 ^M
0233L07A01051624843060000100000006 ^M
0233L07A02050869301010000200000006 ^M
.......

Actual Output in new file:
002009101307350520093320091013335
^M
0102655N3FKAA20091013S0013200000006
^M
0233L07A01051624843060000100000006
^M
0233L07A02050869301010000200000006
^M
.......

I'm actually using one file to create multiple files with changes in few fields of the file

Can you let me know the awk command that can be used with this? I tried searching in google but couldn't find. I'm still in the process of searching

Please let me know if you require any further details

Thanks a lot!
Shobana
 

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NAME
lookbib - search bibliographic databases SYNOPSIS
lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename... DESCRIPTION
lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain- ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases filename... for references containing those keywords, prints any references found on the standard output, and repeats this process until the end of input. For each database filename to be searched, if an index filename.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases. OPTIONS
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its parameter. -v Print the version number. -istring When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in string. -tn Only require the first n characters of keys to be given. Initially n is 6. FILES
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