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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script - entered input(1-40 bytes) needs to be converted exactly 40 bytes Post 302757009 by shravan.300 on Thursday 17th of January 2013 01:50:59 AM
Old 01-17-2013
Shell script - entered input(1-40 bytes) needs to be converted exactly 40 bytes
hello,

suppose, entered input is of 1-40 bytes, i need it to be converted to 40 bytes exactly.

example: if i have entered my name anywhere between 1-40 i want it to be stored with 40 bytes exactly.

enter your name:
donald duck (this is of 11 bytes)

expected is as below - display 11 bytes entered and rest of the 29 bytes with blank space
donald duck____________________________(i refereed _ to blank space)


my shell script is something like below:
Code:
echo "enter you name"
read name
echo "enter age"
read age
echo $name$age


please help!
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-17-2013 at 03:11 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
 

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