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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting insert text into empty file Post 302587671 by banjo25 on Thursday 5th of January 2012 01:24:58 PM
Old 01-05-2012
insert text into empty file

I have an awk script to extract data from several files and create output in the following format as a csv file:

xxxx 01/04/12 0001 0

When data is present, I have a file. When no data is available in the input files, I would still like to create a file that looks like this:

xxxx 01/04/12 0001 0
xxxx 01/04/12 0002 0
xxxx 01/04/12 0003 0
.
.
.
xxxx 01/04/12 0024 0

The date field is always the current date. I am using awk to extract the data and have figured out how to get the current date. I pass it to awk using the -v option.

I have searched through the forums and haven't had any success. Please help. Thanks.

Last edited by banjo25; 01-05-2012 at 02:28 PM.. Reason: used incorrect word - data rather than date.
 

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UNICODE_START(1)					      General Commands Manual						  UNICODE_START(1)

NAME
unicode_start - put keyboard and console in unicode mode SYNOPSIS
unicode_start [font [umap]] DESCRIPTION
The unicode_start command will put the keyboard and console into Unicode (UTF-8) mode. For the keyboard this means that one can attach 16-bit U+xxxx values to keyboard keys using loadkeys(1), and have these appear as UTF-8 input to user programs. Also, that one can type hexadecimal Alt-xxxx using the numeric keypad, and again produce UTF-8. For the console this means that the kernel expects UTF-8 output from user programs, and displays the output accordingly. The parameter font is a font that is loaded. It should have a built-in Unicode map, or, if it hasn't, such a map can be given explicitly as second parameter. When no font was specified, the current font is kept. NOTE
Unicode mode is a parameter with a value per virtual console. However, usually the font and keymap is common to all consoles. SEE ALSO
dumpkeys(1), kbd_mode(1), loadkeys(1), unicode_stop(1), utf-8(7), setfont(8) 3 Feb 2001 UNICODE_START(1)
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