. . .
I want the file to look like this again it is fixed width
. . .
I think all the proposals up to now will lose the fixed width property which the requestor needed to keep, esp. if you just add a "0" in front of $2 the record size is gone.
Not sure, though, how to do it. Break it into lines with fmt, modify with awk or sed, remove <linefeed> with tr?
Were there single lines, this might work:
Alrigt, I need to write a shell script where it counts the number of folders and files and dispays "My home directory has 'x' files and 'y' directories."
So, I was thinking of doing this.
set x = `ls | wc`
so, if I have 8 files and folders in my home directory, x is not 8.
now, I was... (1 Reply)
Anyone know where I can get started in C++ programming in unix?
Any good free tutorials or websites to start at?
I am okay in unix scripting but have never done c programming of any sort...
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Hi, I'm in dire need of some help for AWK. I'm a college student and my statistics professor decided he'd teach AWK in the last two days of our class, even when it's not programming class and we don't even have computers in class to experiment. Anyway, I tried looking at AWK tutorials, but it... (4 Replies)
hi guys,
i have a DEl xps laptop cor 2 duo 2.2
i have vista installed on it
i want to install a dual Boot UNIX on it..
can some one guide me ...cause i m tottaly new to UNIX
i want to install unix on that laptop along with Vista....
thx
any help would be deeply appreciated
(sorry if i... (5 Replies)
I need to write a script to test a nsort c program. I have written 8 .txt files with different cases. Also 8 .txt files with expected outcome. The shell I have written always "test pass" for the first case but always "fail" for the rest... Here is a portion of my code (as I still don't know how to... (5 Replies)
Hi people....
I have just started to learn unix.I want to know which version of Unix to install plus how to install it.I need to practise and make myself aware of how unix works.My thread is from an educational point of view.Also please feel free to give your suggestions as I am... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to write a script that reads names from a file called input, removes names if they have the same letter next to each other and prints the others.
e.g. Colin & John would be printed
Garry & Lynn would be removed
My thinking is that I read in each name and... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have just now started learning awk from the source - Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction - by Bruce Barnett
and the bad part is that I am stuck on the very first example for running the awk script.
The script is as -
#!/bin/sh
# Linux users have to change $8 to $9
awk '
BEGIN ... (6 Replies)
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vmware 9
redhat 7.2 iso downloaded through redhat official site
after installation on vm it only boots into text dont show graphics
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fmt
FMT(1) User Commands FMT(1)NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --crown-margin
preserve indentation of first two lines
-p, --prefix=STRING
reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines
-s, --split-only
split long lines, but do not refill
-t, --tagged-paragraph
indentation of first line different from second
-u, --uniform-spacing
one space between words, two after sentences
-w, --width=WIDTH
maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
-g, --goal=WIDTH
goal width (default of 93% of width)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report fmt translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for fmt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and fmt programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'fmt invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 FMT(1)