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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK/SED: handle max chars in a line Post 302515226 by unknown7 on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 04:00:26 AM
Old 04-20-2011
@Shell life
EDIT: Solution nearly works. Thanks a lot. Just the first "\" is wrongly removed. If 19 char + "\" than do nothing. Means it was a longer char which was splitted prev. correctly. And do not remove "\" within lines.

NewTestcode:
Just remove "\" if it's last char in line and if line has >20 chars.
Remember the next line holds also the additional chars which were cut regarding to this rule!
Code:
AB!"§$&\\/()=?@\.*'A
12345678901234567890
1234567890123456789\
1234567890123456789,\
1234567890123456789\
123456789012
1234567890123456789\
1234567890123456789,\
A\B/C@D

newline_possible\/()

Result should be:
Code:
AB!"§$&\\/()=?@\.*'A
12345678901234567890
1234567890123456789\
1234567890123456789\
,123456789012345678\
9123456789012
1234567890123456789\
1234567890123456789\
,A\B/C@D

newline_possible\/()

If line is like:
12345678901234567890
and no "\" at the end -> do nothing.

Only if the last char of the 20 is a "\" than it's a splittet line. If there are 20 chars w/o a "\" nothing should be changed.
So 20 chars with "\" at the end means it was previously smth. bigger which was splitted.

So the "\" should just be removed if the line.length > 20 & the last char is a "\".
Tried to remove or move the sed command but i dont know how to let the loop run w/o sed ;-)

@UVI
Unfortunately it says syntax error... couldn't find the reson... could u recheck this please?

Thanks a lot!

---------- Post updated 20th Apr 2011 at 10:00 AM ---------- Previous update was 19th Apr 2011 at 07:03 PM ----------

Hmmm i don't get it...
additional check like: ${mline2: -1} -eq '\'
or with tail command

so much options... but my syntax is wrong :-/
Help is needed - thanks
Last edited by unknown7; 04-20-2011 at 06:03 AM..
 

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