How to search for a word like "computer" in a column (eg: 4th field) of a '***' delimited file and add a column at the end of the record which denotes 'Y' if present and 'N' if not. After this, we need to again check for words like 'Dell' but not 'DellXPS' in 5th field and again add another column... (5 Replies)
I have a data in a file like this
1 praveen bmscollege
2 shishira bnmit
3 parthiva geethamce
I want to search "praveen" using awk command i tried like this but i did not get
awk `$2="praveen" {print $0} ` praveen.lst
can anyone help me solving this problem in... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need an awk script (or whatever shell-construct) that would take data like below and get the max value of 3 column, when grouping by the 1st column.
clientname,day-of-month,max-users
-----------------------------------
client1,20120610,5
client2,20120610,2
client3,20120610,7... (3 Replies)
input
"A","B","C,D","E","F"
"S","T","U,V","W","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","EEEE","FFF"
required output:
"A","B","C,D","C,D","F"
"S", T","U,V","U,V","X"
"AA","BB","CC,DD","CC,DD","FFF"
tried using awk but double quotes not preserving for every field. any help to solve this is much... (5 Replies)
I have a multicolumn text file with header in the first row like this
The headers are stored in an array called . which contains I want to search for each elements of this array from that multicolumn text file. And I am using this awk approach
for ii in ${hdr}
do
gawk -vcol="$ii" -F... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
strlcat
STRLCPY(3) BSD Library Functions Manual STRLCPY(3)NAME
strlcpy, strlcat -- size-bounded string copying and concatenation
LIBRARY
Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, -lbsd)
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsd/string.h>
size_t
strlcpy(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size);
size_t
strlcat(char *dst, const char *src, size_t size);
DESCRIPTION
The strlcpy() and strlcat() functions copy and concatenate strings respectively. They are designed to be safer, more consistent, and less
error prone replacements for strncpy(3) and strncat(3). Unlike those functions, strlcpy() and strlcat() take the full size of the buffer
(not just the length) and guarantee to NUL-terminate the result (as long as size is larger than 0 or, in the case of strlcat(), as long as
there is at least one byte free in dst). Note that a byte for the NUL should be included in size. Also note that strlcpy() and strlcat()
only operate on true ``C'' strings. This means that for strlcpy() src must be NUL-terminated and for strlcat() both src and dst must be NUL-
terminated.
The strlcpy() function copies up to size - 1 characters from the NUL-terminated string src to dst, NUL-terminating the result.
The strlcat() function appends the NUL-terminated string src to the end of dst. It will append at most size - strlen(dst) - 1 bytes, NUL-
terminating the result.
RETURN VALUES
The strlcpy() and strlcat() functions return the total length of the string they tried to create. For strlcpy() that means the length of
src. For strlcat() that means the initial length of dst plus the length of src. While this may seem somewhat confusing, it was done to make
truncation detection simple.
Note, however, that if strlcat() traverses size characters without finding a NUL, the length of the string is considered to be size and the
destination string will not be NUL-terminated (since there was no space for the NUL). This keeps strlcat() from running off the end of a
string. In practice this should not happen (as it means that either size is incorrect or that dst is not a proper ``C'' string). The check
exists to prevent potential security problems in incorrect code.
EXAMPLES
The following code fragment illustrates the simple case:
char *s, *p, buf[BUFSIZ];
...
(void)strlcpy(buf, s, sizeof(buf));
(void)strlcat(buf, p, sizeof(buf));
To detect truncation, perhaps while building a pathname, something like the following might be used:
char *dir, *file, pname[MAXPATHLEN];
...
if (strlcpy(pname, dir, sizeof(pname)) >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
if (strlcat(pname, file, sizeof(pname)) >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
Since it is known how many characters were copied the first time, things can be sped up a bit by using a copy instead of an append:
char *dir, *file, pname[MAXPATHLEN];
size_t n;
...
n = strlcpy(pname, dir, sizeof(pname));
if (n >= sizeof(pname))
goto toolong;
if (strlcpy(pname + n, file, sizeof(pname) - n) >= sizeof(pname) - n)
goto toolong;
However, one may question the validity of such optimizations, as they defeat the whole purpose of strlcpy() and strlcat(). As a matter of
fact, the first version of this manual page got it wrong.
SEE ALSO snprintf(3), strncat(3), strncpy(3)HISTORY
The strlcpy() and strlcat() functions first appeared in OpenBSD 2.4, and made their appearance in FreeBSD 3.3.
BSD May 31, 2007 BSD