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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting changing a variable length text to a fixed length Post 302442065 by dc18 on Tuesday 3rd of August 2010 07:53:29 AM
Old 08-03-2010
PHP Still need solution
Hi Scott,

Input file

Code:
01,10,000020,*,*,******,999999,00,,WERK 28 - BUS
01,10,000030,*,*,******,999999,00,,WERK 30 - UNIMOG
01,10,000060,*,*,******,999999,20,,LASTWAGEN
01,10,000065,*,*,******,999999,00,,WERK 65 - TRANSP.
01,00,000001,*,*,******,999999,00,,DB-PKW
01,00,000010,*,*,******,999999,00,,DB-LKW
01,00,100012,*,*,******,999999,20,,600
01,00,100014,*,*,******,999999,20,,600 LANG 4-T RIG
01,00,100015,*,*,******,999999,20,,600 LANDAUER
01,00,100016,*,*,******,999999,20,,600 LANG 6-T RIG

Output from script, before and after, showing field length & text

Code:
   b4 change 13    WERK 28 - BUS
after change 72    WERK              28                -                 BUS
   b4 change 16    WERK 30 - UNIMOG
after change 72    WERK              30                -                 UNIMOG
     b4 change 9    LASTWAGEN
after change 18    LASTWAGEN
   b4 change 17    WERK 65 - TRANSP.
after change 72    WERK              65                -                 TRANSP.
     b4 change 6    DB-PKW
after change 18    DB-PKW
     b4 change 6    DB-LKW
after change 18    DB-LKW
     b4 change 3    600
after change 18    600
   b4 change 16    600 LANG 4-T RIG
after change 72    600               LANG              4-T               RIG
   b4 change 12    600 LANDAUER
after change 36    600               LANDAUER
   b4 change 16    600 LANG 6-T RIG
after change 72    600               LANG              6-T               RIG

Shell Script

Code:
cat infile | while read line
do
  field=`echo $line | cut -d',' -f10`
  echo "   b4 change ${#field}    $field"
  field=$(printf "%-18s" $field)
  echo "after change ${#field}    $field"
done

Thanks
Dave
Last edited by dc18; 08-03-2010 at 03:34 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rig

RIG(6)								   Games Manual 							    RIG(6)

NAME

       RIG - Random Identity Generator

USAGE

       rig [ -f | -m ] [ -d datadir ] [ -c num ]

DESCRIPTION

       Rig is a utility that will piece together a random first name, last name, street number and address, along with a geographically consistant
       (ie, they all match the same area) city, state, ZIP code, and area code.

       It is suitable for such applications as feeding the NY times registration page to fend off junk (snail) mail and telemarketers, or for reg-
       istering on BBS's to which you don't wish to reveal your real information.

OPTIONS

       -f, -m Respectively, use female and male names. If neither or both options are selected, RIG uses both female and male names.

       -d datadir
	      Use data files found in datadir. Without this option, the default directory of /usr/share/rig is assumed.

       -c num Output num identities. Default is 1.

FILES

       /usr/share/rig/locdata.idx
       /usr/share/rig/street.idx
       /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx
       /usr/share/rig/mnames.idx
       /usr/share/rig/lnames.idx

HISTORY

       Based on "fake" written for MS-DOS. Unfortunately the author and publish date are unknown.

       First UNIX version written from scratch in 1999.

       This manpage based on RIG version 1.10.

AUTHORS

       UNIX  version  (c)  1999-2002 Ian Turner with contributions from Ian Prowell, Nick Rusnov, and Schneelocke.  Geography Database is from the
       original  version  and  I  believe  it  to  be  held   in   the	 public   domain.    Names   database	is   from   the   US   Census	at
       http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/ , courtesy of Trent Stanley.

       Send all comments and bug-reports to:

       vectro@RIG.sourceforge.net

								    4 JUN 2002								    RIG(6)
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