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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Append characters to end of line Post 302415452 by Corona688 on Thursday 22nd of April 2010 03:37:51 PM
Old 04-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by sam12345
Thanks Corona,

I basically copied the code.. it works please could you explain what is happening.

I mean to say what is
Code:
# Read line into LINE.  Do not break on spaces.  (IFS is 'inter-field-seperator', defaults to all whitespace.)
IFS="" read LINE
        # Loop while the length of LINE is < 100 chars
        while [ "${#LINE}" -lt 100 ] 
        do
                # Add 0 to the end of LINE
                LINE="${LINE}0" 
        done
        # print the line.
        echo "${LINE}"

The awk solution is probably better however.
 

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