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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Loop to Convert a list from an input file and output it to another file Post 302798579 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 06:16:11 PM
Old 04-24-2013
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Originally Posted by AliTheSnake
Alright. The
Code:
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deletes the content in the file
Code:
>>

appends it.
I changed > to >>
now i got this :


screenshot in attachments.
Something wrong in the tabling script?
What am i missing.
So it looks like you're getting all of your output (although the sample in your assignment showed two lines of headings and your output only shows one). It looks like your code to convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit is working correctly. So, what problem do you have left besides centering your output values under the appropriate headings? (You do realize that since the output values you've calculated vary from one to four characters, you will need to vary the number of spaces or tabs printed in front of the calculated values to center them, don't you?) I assume that you don't have access to the tabs utility yet, so you're probably better off just using spaces in your output rather than tabs. (And even if you do have access to the tabs utility, I wouldn't recommend using it for something like this.)

Do you know how to get bash to tell you how many characters are stored in a variable? Do you know what output column is at the center of each of your headings? With these two pieces of information, can you calculate how many leading spaces or tabs you need to print before the Centigrade value? (I'm not asking if you can do these calculations using bash; I'm asking if you understand the arithmetic required to determine how to center the strings you'll be printing.)

Do you know how to do integer arithmetic operations inside bash (without invoking bc or expr) yet? If not, it isn't a big deal, you have shown that you can use bc to perform any calculations you need to perform; it is just easier to use the bash built-in arithmetic evaluation tools. Do you know how to use a for loop in bash? Do you know how to use echo to output some characters without a trailing newline?

PS When posting code and sample input and output, please don't do anything special with the fonts. Using arial (a variable width font) instead of the default constant width font will make it almost impossible to get things lined up here.
 

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EXPAND(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 EXPAND(1)

NAME
expand, unexpand -- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa SYNOPSIS
expand [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...] unexpand [-a] [-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The expand utility processes the named files or the standard input writing the standard output with tabs changed into blanks. Backspace characters are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab calculations. The expand utility is useful for pre-process- ing character files (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain tabs. The unexpand utility puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named files and writes the result on the standard output. The following options are available: -a (unexpand only) By default, only leading blanks and tabs are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs. If the -a option is given, then tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the resultant file by replacing two or more characters. -t tab1,tab2,...,tabn Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. If only a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of column positions apart instead of the default number of 8. ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of expand and unexpand as described in environ(7). DIAGNOSTICS
The expand and unexpand utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. STANDARDS
The expand and unexpand utilities conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
The expand command appeared in 3.0BSD. BSD
April 21, 2002 BSD
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