Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
Thanks (2 Replies)
Greetings,
I need to take a fixed length file, similar to the following:
<input file>
1233 e 612 i
43378 f 03 x
22 17 e 9899
a 323e a6 z7
read in the character in position 6, and if that character = e, delete that line from the file.
<output file>
43378 f 03 x
22 17 e 9899
... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have tried to find a solution for this problem but couln't. If anyone of you have an Idea do help me.
INPUT_FILE
with three columns shown to be separated by - sign
A5BNK723NVI - 1 - 294
A7QZM0VIT - 251 - 537
A7NU3411V - 245 - 527
I want an output file in which First column... (2 Replies)
Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
Thanks in advance...
I am new to writing shell scripting and help me out reading a flat file with fixed length.
I have a fixed length flat file with storename(lenth 6) , emailaddress(lenth 15), location(10). There is NO delimiters in that file.
Like the following str00001.txt... (2 Replies)
I have a fixed width file of length 53. when is try to get the lengh of the record of that file i get 2 different answers.
awk '{print length;exit}' <File_name>
The above code gives me length 50.
wc -L <File_name>
The above code gives me length 53.
Please clarify on... (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I need to increment a value in the fixed length file. The file has almost a million rows. Is there any easy way to accomplish this.
Ex
input file
ASDSD ADSD 00000 X
AAASD ADSD 00000 X
SDDDD ADSD 00000 X
Ouput
ASDSD ADSD 00001 X
AAASD ADSD 00002 X
SDDDD ADSD 00003 X
... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to convert a fixed length file to a delimited file with , (comma). But not all columns, some of the columns in the fixed files are used as fillers and I do not need that in the output file.
test_fixed_len.txt
I 0515 MR 394
I 0618 MR & MRS 942
I 0618 MR & MRS... (7 Replies)
hi,
i am using below query to generate the fixed length txt file. this sql is being called from shell script.
This is supposed to be a fixed record file with the below definitions. There must be 2 byte filler after the CAT_ID AND each line should have total of 270 bytes.
field ... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
printfail
MESSAGES(3) libbash messages Library Manual MESSAGES(3)NAME
messages -- libbash library that implements a set of functions to print standard status messages
SYNOPSIS
printOK [indent]
printFAIL [indent]
printNA [indent]
printATTN [indent]
printWAIT [indent]
DESCRIPTION
General
messages is a collection of functions to print standard status messages - those [ OK ] and [FAIL] messages you see during Linux boot process.
The function list:
printOK Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
Detailed interface description follows.
indent
Column to move to before printing.
Default indent is calculated as TTY_WIDTH-10. If current tty width can not be determined (for example, in case of serial console), it
defaults to 80, so default indent is 80-10=10
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
printOK [indent]
Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL [indent]
Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA [indent]
Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN [indent]
Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT [indent]
Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
EXAMPLES
Run a program named MyProg, and report it's success or failure:
echo -n 'Running MyProg...'
printWAIT
if MyProg ; then
printOK
else
printFAIL
fi
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux