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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Problem while counting number of fields in TAB delimited file Post 302530407 by vikanna on Tuesday 14th of June 2011 02:08:03 AM
Old 06-14-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
i guess, the if statement is failing..

Code:
 
if [ $delimiter_char = "TAB" ]
then
echo "Inside the TAB condition"
col_cnt=`echo $header_line | awk -F'/t' '{print NF}'`
else
echo "Coming here for TAB?"
col_cnt=`echo $header_line | awk -F"$delimiter_char" '{print NF}'`
fi

execute the script as below

Code:
./get_col_lengths.sh customer.dat 'TAB'

see, which echo is printing

change the if condition as below and execute it once again

Code:
if [ "$delimiter_char" eq "TAB" ]

No dear, "if" is working, tried that already
still i'm putting output here

./get_col_lengths.sh CUSTOMER.dat 'TAB'
No. of Records in CUSTOMER.dat : 200
No. of Columns in CUSTOMER.dat : 1
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

rcs2log

RCS2LOG(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						RCS2LOG(1)

NAME

     rcs2log -- RCS to ChangeLog generator

SYNOPSIS

     rcs2log [-c changelog] [-h hostname] [-i indent] [-l length] [-R] [-r option] [-t tabwidth] [-u login<TAB>fullname<TAB>mailaddr] [-v]
	     [--help] [--version] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The rcs2log utility generates a change log prefix from RCS files (perhaps in the CVS repository) and the ChangeLog (if any).

     The options are as follows:

     -c changelog
	     Output a change log prefix to changelog (default ChangeLog).

     -h hostname
	     Use hostname in change log entries (default current host).

     -i indent
	     Indent change log lines by indent spaces (default 8).

     -l length
	     Try to limit log lines to length characters (default 79).

     -R      If no file(s) are given and RCS is used, recurse through working directory.

     -r option
	     Pass option to subsidiary log command.

     -t tabwidth
	     Tab stops are every tabwidth characters (default 8).

     -u login<TAB>fullname<TAB>mailaddr
	     Assume login has fullname and mailaddr.

     -v      Append RCS revision to file names in log lines.

     --help  Output help.

     --version
	     Output version number.

SEE ALSO

     rcs(1), rcsintro(1), rlog(1), rcsfile(5)

AUTHORS

     Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>

BUGS

     Report bugs to <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>.

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