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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Record length check fails due to '\' character Post 302786233 by Amrutha24 on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 05:45:41 AM
Old 03-27-2013
I pass a file as Input, read line by line and check for the length of a record using
HTML Code:
wc -c
command.
HTML Code:
ex: 250
.

If the record is less than the given length the script fails.

If all the records in the file is of same length then my input file is moved to a required path.

My file as some thousands of records.
Code:
If any record contains \ character then wc -c displays the count 1 less 
HTML Code:
ex 249
and my script fails

Code:
Note:
I should not replace the \ character.

 

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NAME
htmlclean - a small script to clean up existing HTML SYNOPSIS
htmlclean [-v] [-V] file1 [file2 file3 ...] DESCRIPTION
This program provides a command-line interface to the HTML::Clean module, which can help you to provide more compatible, smaller HTML files at the expense of reducing the human readability of the HTML code. In some cases you may be able to reduce the size of your HTML by up to 50%! The HTML::Clean library provides a number of features that improve your HTML for browsing and serving: htmlclean passes each file given on the command line to the library and writes out the new HTML according to the specified options. The default is to create a backup file and replace the file with cleaned HTML. Removing whitespace, Comments and other useless or redundant constructs Insuring that font tags work across multiple operating systems For full details see the documentations for HTML::Clean itself. OPTIONS
"-V" Print the version of the program. "-v" Verbose mode. Print out the original and final file sizes, plus the compression percent. For example: 5261 4065 22% /tmp/development-es.html 5258 4061 22% /tmp/development-fr.html 4651 3683 20% /tmp/development.html SEE ALSO
For the library, see HTML::Clean AUTHOR
"htmlclean" is written by Paul Lindner, <paul.lindner@itu.int> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c> 1998 by ITU under the same terms as Perl. perl v5.12.1 1999-01-17 HTMLCLEAN(1)
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