I'm using a command that outputs the total size of the files that I've specified.
I'd like to introduce a character limit that appends an ellipsis to the lines that go beyond the specified amount.
That's what I have so far. It seems to add the ellipsis to the end of lines regardless of them being more or less than 25 characters. I'd only like to apple the limit to lines that go beyond the limit.
I am trying to use the following code:
awk '{s=$0;if(length(s) < 750){getline; s=s " " $0}printf("%s\n",s)}' filename
but an error shows that 'awk' is too long. Is there a limit to the awk length function? and what could be an alternate solution for long fixed width records?
The code... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I want to delimit the output using awk.
For eg::
a,b,c,d,e,f
abc,def,ghi
should change to
a|b|c|d|e|f
abc|def|ghi
Or to put in another way..
OFS will work in the following code if I seperate the values with comma (eg. $1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6 ). But since the no. of... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have many problems with a script. I have a script that formats a text file but always prints the same error when i try to execute it
The code is that:
{
if (NF==17){
print $0
}else{
fields=NF;
all=$0;
while... (2 Replies)
Is there an input file memory limit for awk?
I have a 38Mb text file that I am trying to print out certatin lines and add a string to the end of that line.
When I excute the script on the 38Mb file the string I am adding is put on a new line. If I do the same with a smaller file the... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
We are using the SunOS 5.9 and the application is listening on user defined ports and waiting for the request from the user.When i am trying to connect and give the requests using telnet ,I am not able to provide the request beyond 256 characters.The telnet connection is... (1 Reply)
I have a file that contains several thousands rows. Here is an example.
^411912$
^487267$
^643776$
^682249$
^687737$
^692328$
^693767$
^695483$
^697289$
^757411$
^776688$
^778953$
^806123$
^872262$
^877877$
^839837$
^76666$
^72018$
^23330$ (3 Replies)
Hi
I would just like to ask if there is a way for UNIX to ignore/overcome the 255 character limit of the command line?
My problem is that I have a really long line of text from a file (300+ bytes) which i have to "echo" and process by adding commands like "sed" to the end of the line, like... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
We have a working script which identifies and kills ipcs resources which havent been correctly killed during normal shutdowns.
It is working fine and dandy however there are some issues now.
Environment:
SunOS 5.10 Generic_148888-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I created the following (snippet from larger code):
echo -n "A1: "
read A1
VERIFY=$(echo -n $A1|wc -c)
if ; then
echo -e "TOO MANY CHARACTERS"
fi
echo -n "A2: "
read A2
echo -n "A3: "
read A3
echo -e "Concat: $B1/$B2/$B3"
Basically what it does is it... (4 Replies)
I have a topic line in markdown that spans more than 80 characters that i need to add a line break. Markdown is simply treating the line break as a brand new line instead of continuing as a topic line.
Eg:
# This is a very long
line
Markdown interprets it as
This is a very long
line (4 Replies)