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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Program to insert Delimiters at fixed locations in a file, Can you please Debug it for me?? Post 302430120 by curleb on Wednesday 16th of June 2010 03:59:13 PM
Old 06-16-2010
okay.

I'm sure there are quicker approaches, but this would probably suffice in a quick and dirty approach; it also shows exactly what it's doing...and is scalable in terms of additional field (should they arise...):

Code:
-> #  Where Edit12 is your file... 
-> for i in $(tr -d "\n" <Edit12 |fold -b -15) ;do \
      fld1=$(echo $i |cut -b 1-2) \
   && fld2=$(echo $i |cut -b 3-6) \
   && fld3=$(echo $i |cut -b 7-12) \
   && fld4=$(echo $i |cut -b 13-16) ;print $fld1 $fld2 $fld3 $fld4 ;done
AA BBBB CCCCCC DDD
EE FFFF GGGGGG HHH
II JJJJ KKKKKK LLL

You can adjust to provide your own delimiters such as follows:

Code:
-> #  Where Edit12 is your file... 
-> for i in $(tr -d "\n" <Edit12 |fold -b -15) ;do \
      fld1=$(echo $i |cut -b 1-2) \
   && fld2=$(echo $i |cut -b 3-6) \
   && fld3=$(echo $i |cut -b 7-12) \
   && fld4=$(echo $i |cut -b 13-16) ;print "$fld1${FS:- }$fld2${FS:- }$fld3${FS:- }$fld4" ;done
AA BBBB CCCCCC DDD
EE FFFF GGGGGG HHH
II JJJJ KKKKKK LLL

Last edited by curleb; 06-18-2010 at 04:09 PM.. Reason: line continuation brings sanity...
 

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