I am trying to print a simple ascii file but it comes out as a staggered output. I know there's a simple solution but can't remember it, am a little rusty.
eg. a file that look like
would print out like
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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as the title, I had try use "wc -l test.txt" but it give me "<many spaces> 384 test.txt" but the result I want is just "384" could any person can help me that?
Thx:( (5 Replies)
i have to print first n lines of a file. how can i do that without using head command. for some reason i do not want to use Head. is there a way to get that result using awk or sed?.
i an using this on korn shell for AIX
Thanks.. (7 Replies)
Dear users,
I need to count the number of lines in a simple text file and print the number on the first line of that same file.
I know I can count the lines using
wc -l file.txt
this gives for example
100 file.txt
I need the number 100 to be printed at the very top of file.txt... (2 Replies)
Hi,
A very Good Evening to All,
I am writing a script for my application. I have a file with 1000 lines. Among that 1000 lines i am searching for a particular string. And from that string i need to pull all the data in to a seperate file.
For example the contents of my file is as below.
... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I want to print a number of lines of a file after a specific expression of a line.
I have this sed command but it prints only 1 line after the expression.
How could I adapt it to print for instance 10 lines after or 15 lines after ?
sed -n '/regexp/{n;p;}'
Thx & Regs,
Rany. (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to send extended ascii characters to my HP2055 as part of PCL printer control codes. What I want to do is select a bar code font, print the bar code and reset the printer to the default font.
Selecting the bar code font works good. Printing the bar code goes almost ok too. ... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to auto generate some php files with a default preamble at the top which is a block comment.
The problem is that my output has no new lines and it looks like the output from "ls" is being printed after everyline
This is my code
#!/bin/bash
read -d '' pre_amble... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
I was wondering if there was an easy solution, using tcsh, to print out lines that appear twice with a given pattern in a file?
So if I am looking for lines with "test" in a given file that contains:
blah
test blah1
blah //don't print this out as it doesn't have... (3 Replies)
Hi !
I need some help with a script I am writing.
I am trying to compare two files, the first file being in this format :
Header1
Text1-1
Text1-2
Text1-3
Header2
Text2-1
etc...
For each header, I want to check if it appears in the second file, and if it is the case print the header... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an ascii file in which few columns are having hex values which i need to convert into ascii. Kindly suggest me what command can be used in unix shell scripting?
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text::wrap
Text::Wrap(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Wrap(3pm)NAME
Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
SYNOPSIS
Example 1
use Text::Wrap
$initial_tab = " "; # Tab before first line
$subsequent_tab = ""; # All other lines flush left
print wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
print fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
@lines = wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
@paragraphs = fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
Example 2
use Text::Wrap qw(wrap $columns $huge);
$columns = 132; # Wrap at 132 characters
$huge = 'die';
$huge = 'wrap';
$huge = 'overflow';
Example 3
use Text::Wrap
$Text::Wrap::columns = 72;
print wrap('', '', @text);
DESCRIPTION
"Text::Wrap::wrap()" is a very simple paragraph formatter. It formats a single paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries.
Indentation is controlled for the first line ($initial_tab) and all subsequent lines ($subsequent_tab) independently. Please note: $ini-
tial_tab and $subsequent_tab are the literal strings that will be used: it is unlikley you would want to pass in a number.
Text::Wrap::fill() is a simple multi-paragraph formatter. It formats each paragraph separately and then joins them together when it's
done. It will destory any whitespace in the original text. It breaks text into paragraphs by looking for whitespace after a newline. In
other respects it acts like wrap().
OVERRIDES
"Text::Wrap::wrap()" has a number of variables that control its behavior. Because other modules might be using "Text::Wrap::wrap()" it is
suggested that you leave these variables alone! If you can't do that, then use "local($Text::Wrap::VARIABLE) = YOURVALUE" when you change
the values so that the original value is restored. This "local()" trick will not work if you import the variable into your own namespace.
Lines are wrapped at $Text::Wrap::columns columns. $Text::Wrap::columns should be set to the full width of your output device. In fact,
every resulting line will have length of no more than "$columns - 1".
It is possible to control which characters terminate words by modifying $Text::Wrap::break. Set this to a string such as '[s:]' (to break
before spaces or colons) or a pre-compiled regexp such as "qr/[s']/" (to break before spaces or apostrophes). The default is simply 's';
that is, words are terminated by spaces. (This means, among other things, that trailing punctuation such as full stops or commas stay
with the word they are "attached" to.)
Beginner note: In example 2, above $columns is imported into the local namespace, and set locally. In example 3, $Text::Wrap::columns is
set in its own namespace without importing it.
"Text::Wrap::wrap()" starts its work by expanding all the tabs in its input into spaces. The last thing it does it to turn spaces back
into tabs. If you do not want tabs in your results, set $Text::Wrap::unexapand to a false value. Likewise if you do not want to use
8-character tabstops, set $Text::Wrap::tabstop to the number of characters you do want for your tabstops.
If you want to separate your lines with something other than "
" then set $Text::Wrap::seporator to your preference.
When words that are longer than $columns are encountered, they are broken up. "wrap()" adds a "
" at column $columns. This behavior can
be overridden by setting $huge to 'die' or to 'overflow'. When set to 'die', large words will cause "die()" to be called. When set to
'overflow', large words will be left intact.
Historical notes: 'die' used to be the default value of $huge. Now, 'wrap' is the default value.
EXAMPLE
print wrap(" ","","This is a bit of text that forms
a normal book-style paragraph");
AUTHOR
David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> with help from Tim Pierce and many many others.
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-01 Text::Wrap(3pm)