I would like to truncate my fifth column to 5 digits after the decimal. But, I want that output directly from the calculation not after printing the 5th column and truncating digits in the output file.
This is because, if we do the truncation after calculation, the value after e- is different and might yield different results.
what does this command do ? as in
does this command just make sure everything in the file is executed?
or does it flush the file?
Actually this is used on a file in a progress database but I believe it is a unix command? (2 Replies)
I have AIX5.1
I have been trying to learn how to truncate the /var/adm/wtmp file.
I have seen several things on google actually but don't quite understand. I also searched your forums but couldn't find it.
one says this ">/var/adm/wtmp
Is that all I do?
I have a seperate question also. I was... (1 Reply)
Hello everybody it's me again.
I have a procces that is writing in a 'file1' automatically but i want to truncate 'file1' to a filesize 'x' that mean if the 'file1' size is 'x' i want to delete the first lines while the last lines are being writed, that have sence?
in the process are an... (1 Reply)
I have one file which first line is blank and second line has some data.
$cat filename
output:
30-MAY-07
I want to store 30-MAY-07 value in one variable.
for that I wrote
var="`head -2 filename`"
It will give that result but I want to truncate the first line which is blank.
plz help. (2 Replies)
I have a file in which I need to truncate 15th field to have only one character
like Put --> P
and if i have no value in 15th field, it should be "O" (Other)
would really appreciate the reponses, thnx in advance:b: (2 Replies)
I am using FC6 just in case it matters, though i hope it doesn't.
If i have a file or some files that i want to truncate the filename of, so that it is only a certain number of characters in length, how would i do that on the command line?
Also, just to make it more interesting, say i... (11 Replies)
Hi
In unix able to connect to oracle database and create table ,when rerun ,if table exist ,truncate that table.Any idea how to do that
a.sh
----
sqlplus -s datadmin/password <<EOF
create table xx(col1 number,
col2...
);
exit;
EOF
I... (1 Reply)
Hello all.
I would like to make a script (or two shell scripts) that will do the following.
I need the maximum file name and directory name to be 38 characters long.
As well, if shortening the file name ends up making all of the files in that directory have the same name, then I would like... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I want to truncate a string variable, returned in the script. In perl I used the below and it worked.
BRNo=BR12345
$BR = substr($BRNo, 2, 7)
How can I do it in sh.
Thanks ! (8 Replies)
Hello
Using BASH under Ubuntu 10.4 lts + XMonad
My script is almost perfect but i'm stuck at the last hurdle:
I need a sort of modified 'echo' which truncates its output to the width of the terminal
I can find the terminal's width with 'stty size' but i dont know how to then convert input... (2 Replies)