Can I suggest a slight change - to fix last character not output and to support spaces within string:
Thanks. After I posted and was "finalizing" the script I noticed the missing last letter, which I solved by adding 1 to the length:
Code:
LEN=$((${#1} + 1))
I also added the quotes out of habit. I didn't see how they would matter at first since it's taking the first argument. If the argument is abc def, it will see it as abc whether it's quoted or not. But now I see that quoting both the argument on the command line and variable in the script is the only way it will take an argument with spaces using $1.
Luckily I was using
Code:
foo "$(can infile)"
and it won't contain any spaces anyway, but that's good to know.
I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help.
echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax.
The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)
I need to add spaces in between characters in a string variable.
Is there a shortcut? I know you can remove the spaces with sed, but does sed have a way to add them?
Example:
I have: DATA01
I want it to be: D A T A 0 1
What I have done so far is to create a function... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to test a unix file by inserting greek characters in to vi editor.
Can anyone please suggest how to insert greek characters in to vi editor. (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have called some.txt with the following content.
oracle HYRDSRVIHUB01 pts/0 TESTIHUB 07-JUN-10 CREATE TABLE
TESTIHUB PHONE ... (12 Replies)
Input:
Youcaneasilydothisbyhighlightingyourcode.
Putting space after three characters.
You can eas ily dot his byh igh lig hti ngy our cod e.
How can i do this using sed? (10 Replies)
Hey all,
Fist post, so be kind... I have written an expect script which logs into a terminal and gathers several screens of information. Unfortunately the log file gives me all the special escape and control characters from the terminal. I am hoping to use a combination of shell scripting, sed,... (1 Reply)
i have written a shell script that reads a csv file and inserts tokenized strings into the database.
the problem comes when the csv file has cyrillic characters.
how do i set the parameters in my shell script(korn shell) so that any characters can be inserted into the database. (3 Replies)
Hello, newb here :o
How do I add square brackets before and after the first character in a string using sed?
e.g.
0123456
123456
My attempts have been fruitless.
sed 's/.\{0\}//'
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi all...
This is more of a concensus question than help...
As many of you know I am experimenting with the limitations of Pure POSIX shell scripting.
Q: Is the directory /bin considered part of the Pure POSIX shell or must I stick entirely with the builtins only?
The reason is I... (2 Replies)
Dear all,
I would like to insert N blankspaces in front of a string using sed command
To give an example (N=10), I tried that code:
$ echo "abcd" | sed 's/^/ \{10,\}&/'
but I failed, by obtaining that result:
{10,}abcd
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: dae
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paps
PAPS(1) General Commands Manual PAPS(1)NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do rtl layout.
--paper ps
Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.
--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--encoding=ENCODING
Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)