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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check if the text file has more than 2 characters Post 302745843 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 18th of December 2012 07:49:22 AM
Old 12-18-2012
Code:
awk -F'|'  'length($13)>2' inputfile > outputfile

 

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EEP24C(1)						      General Commands Manual							 EEP24C(1)

NAME
ihex2txt - converts Intelhex format to a simple text format txt2ihex - converts simple text format to Intelhex SYNOPSIS
ihex2txt inputfile outputfile txt2ihex inputfile outputfile DESCRIPTION
The commands ihex2txt and txt2ihex can be used to edit data in Intelhex format. First you get the original Intelhex file and use ihex2txt to convert it. Then you edit the text file and convert back to Intelhex using txt2ihex INTELHEX FORMAT
Intel Hexadecimal Object File Format or simply Intelhex specification can be found at ftp://download.intel.com/support/processors/ i960/devtools/INTELHEX.PDF Record types 00 and 01 are implemented in this version. In input lines, LF and CR+LF are accepted as newline markers. Output files are generated with LF as a newline marker. TEXT FORMAT
The text format is composed by a line with values separated with spaces. The first value is the initial address, the following values are the values. Example: 02B7 07 B9 70 7A 6E means that the content of address 02B7 is 07, the content of address 02B8 is B9, the content of address 02B9 is 70, ... SEE ALSO
eep24c(1). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@vztech.com.br>. 2002-11-14 EEP24C(1)
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