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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sed and awk for long lines Post 302919718 by uxusr on Friday 3rd of October 2014 11:09:54 AM
Old 10-03-2014
sed and awk for long lines

Hi,

I'm trying make a variable length file to a fixed length of 4000.
I'm to pad spaces on the right of a record if length is less than 4000 to make the record length 4000.

I'm trying to use the below commands
Code:
awk '{printf "%-4000s\n", $0}' inputfile.dat > outputfile.dat
 
sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,4000\}$/& /;ta' inputfile.dat > outputfile.dat

But I'm getting error that :

Code:
awk: Format item %-4000s cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes.

And similar error for sed command.
Is there a workaround or alternate options to acheive this.

Thanks!

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