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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Converting fixed width file to pipe delimiter in Linux(red-hat) Post 302934307 by RudiC on Friday 6th of February 2015 05:28:17 AM
Old 02-06-2015
With a subset of field lengths
Code:
echo $FLDS
11 23 26 29 39 53 55 59 69 80 95 103 105 107 108 110 111 113 114 116 124 131 134

extracted from your Expected output, and having corrected your sample data (adding extra spaces that disappeared because you did not use code tags), the result of
Code:
awk  '{MX=split (FLDS, P, " "); for (i=1; i<=MX; i++) $(P[i])=$(P[i]) "|" } 1' FS="" OFS="" FLDS="$FLDS" file > file2

cat file[24] | less
H7216152960|70R865931021|70 |999| OPN ID69 |20141117171817|T1|ZOR |700016901 |4791032964 |BVOM.ES@kk.COM |20141117|07|2 | |00| |RE| |DP|20141031|SYI1 07|470|470|00|00|53|20141114|
H7216152960|70R865931021|70 |999| OPN ID69 |20141117171817|T1|ZOR |700016901 |4791032964 |BVOM.ES@kk.COM |20141117|07|2 | |00| |RE| |DP|20141031|SYI1 07|470|470|00|00|53|20141114|

is pretty close to what you expect (second line)...

I admit there might arise problems with non-ASCII chars as they occupy 2 or more bytes, but I presume it's difficult to create a fixed width file with non-ASCII text.
 

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ASCII(7)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  ASCII(7)

NAME
ascii - ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal DESCRIPTION
ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit code. Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. C program 'X' escapes are noted. Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 000 0 00 NUL '' 100 64 40 @ 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C 004 4 04 EOT (end of transmission) 104 68 44 D 005 5 05 ENQ (enquiry) 105 69 45 E 006 6 06 ACK (acknowledge) 106 70 46 F 007 7 07 BEL 'a' (bell) 107 71 47 G 010 8 08 BS '' (backspace) 110 72 48 H 011 9 09 HT ' ' (horizontal tab) 111 73 49 I 012 10 0A LF ' ' (new line) 112 74 4A J 013 11 0B VT 'v' (vertical tab) 113 75 4B K 014 12 0C FF 'f' (form feed) 114 76 4C L 015 13 0D CR ' ' (carriage ret) 115 77 4D M 016 14 0E SO (shift out) 116 78 4E N 017 15 0F SI (shift in) 117 79 4F O 020 16 10 DLE (data link escape) 120 80 50 P 021 17 11 DC1 (device control 1) 121 81 51 Q 022 18 12 DC2 (device control 2) 122 82 52 R 023 19 13 DC3 (device control 3) 123 83 53 S 024 20 14 DC4 (device control 4) 124 84 54 T 025 21 15 NAK (negative ack.) 125 85 55 U 026 22 16 SYN (synchronous idle) 126 86 56 V 027 23 17 ETB (end of trans. blk) 127 87 57 W 030 24 18 CAN (cancel) 130 88 58 X 031 25 19 EM (end of medium) 131 89 59 Y 032 26 1A SUB (substitute) 132 90 5A Z 033 27 1B ESC (escape) 133 91 5B [ 034 28 1C FS (file separator) 134 92 5C '\' 035 29 1D GS (group separator) 135 93 5D ] 036 30 1E RS (record separator) 136 94 5E ^ 037 31 1F US (unit separator) 137 95 5F _ 040 32 20 SPACE 140 96 60 ` 041 33 21 ! 141 97 61 a 042 34 22 " 142 98 62 b 043 35 23 # 143 99 63 c 044 36 24 $ 144 100 64 d 045 37 25 % 145 101 65 e 046 38 26 & 146 102 66 f 047 39 27 ' 147 103 67 g 050 40 28 ( 150 104 68 h 051 41 29 ) 151 105 69 i 052 42 2A * 152 106 6A j 053 43 2B + 153 107 6B k 054 44 2C , 154 108 6C l 055 45 2D - 155 109 6D m 056 46 2E . 156 110 6E n 057 47 2F / 157 111 6F o 060 48 30 0 160 112 70 p 061 49 31 1 161 113 71 q 062 50 32 2 162 114 72 r 063 51 33 3 163 115 73 s 064 52 34 4 164 116 74 t 065 53 35 5 165 117 75 u 066 54 36 6 166 118 76 v 067 55 37 7 167 119 77 w 070 56 38 8 170 120 78 x 071 57 39 9 171 121 79 y 072 58 3A : 172 122 7A z 073 59 3B ; 173 123 7B { 074 60 3C < 174 124 7C | 075 61 3D = 175 125 7D } 076 62 3E > 176 126 7E ~ 077 63 3F ? 177 127 7F DEL Tables For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal. 2 3 4 5 6 7 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 ------------- --------------------------------- 0: 0 @ P ` p 0: ( 2 < F P Z d n x 1: ! 1 A Q a q 1: ) 3 = G Q [ e o y 2: " 2 B R b r 2: * 4 > H R f p z 3: # 3 C S c s 3: ! + 5 ? I S ] g q { 4: $ 4 D T d t 4: " , 6 @ J T ^ h r | 5: % 5 E U e u 5: # - 7 A K U _ i s } 6: & 6 F V f v 6: $ . 8 B L V ` j t ~ 7: ' 7 G W g w 7: % / 9 C M W a k u DEL 8: ( 8 H X h x 8: & 0 : D N X b l v 9: ) 9 I Y i y 9: ' 1 ; E O Y c m w A: * : J Z j z B: + ; K [ k { C: , < L l | D: - = M ] m } E: . > N ^ n ~ F: / ? O _ o DEL NOTES
History An ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 of AT&T UNIX. On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow, called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the ver- tical bar has a hole in the middle. Uppercase and lowercase characters differ by just one bit and the ASCII character 2 differs from the double quote by just one bit, too. That made it much easier to encode characters mechanically or with a non-microcontroller-based electronic keyboard and that pairing was found on old teletypes. The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968. SEE ALSO
iso_8859-1(7), iso_8859-10(7), iso_8859-13(7), iso_8859-14(7), iso_8859-15(7), iso_8859-16(7), iso_8859-2(7), iso_8859-3(7), iso_8859-4(7), iso_8859-5(7), iso_8859-6(7), iso_8859-7(7), iso_8859-8(7), iso_8859-9(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2009-02-12 ASCII(7)
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