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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Length validation Post 302826251 by vidyadhar85 on Wednesday 26th of June 2013 08:18:56 AM
Old 06-26-2013
try..

Code:
 
awk -F"," '{if(length($1)>12){print "Service ID have higher precision"}else{print "Service ID have lesser precision"}}' filename

 

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