If I correctly understand what you're trying to do (and since you aren't quoting the expansion of $NLINE in your echo statement, I'm not sure that I do), you might find that using dd is a lot easier than writing a COBOL program:
This will strip off trailing space characters from your input file (like your echo does), but it won't strip leading whitespace and won't convert sequences of spaces and tabs in the middle of your input lines to a single space (like your echo does).
Is there a command that sets a variable length?
I have a input of a variable length field but my output for that field needs to be set to 32 char.
Is there such a command?
I am on a sun box running ksh
Thanks (2 Replies)
Problem:
entry_name="joke:hello:yellow:blue:default"
print("%d %-12s\t%-10s\t%-5s\n", $i, $entry_name....);
I just want to print the output like this
index entry value ....
1 joke:hello:y 0 123 567
ellow:blue:d
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a fixed length file where I need to verify the values of 3 different fields, where each field will have a different value.
How can I do that in a single step. (6 Replies)
I have a peculiar file with record format like given below. Each line is wrapped to next lines after certain number of characters. I want to concatenate all wrapped lines into 1.
Input:(wrapped after 10 columns)
This is li
ne1
This is li
ne2 and
this line
is too lo
ng
Shortline
... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I need to split a file based on last occurece of a string. PFB the explanation
I have a file in following format
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
ccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
3186rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... (4 Replies)
I have a big file having 100 K lines.
I have to read each line and see at 356 character position whethere there is a word "W" in it. If it is their then don't delete the line otherwise delete it.
There are two lines as one Header and one trailer which should remain same.
Can somebody... (5 Replies)
I need to break the line after every 3rd semi colon(;) using Unix shell scripting
Input.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;LKU;QWE;BVF;RGHY;
Output.txt
ABC;DEF;JHY;
LKU;QWE;BVF;
RGHY; (1 Reply)
Hi Team,
I have an issue to split the file which is having special chracter(German Char) using awk command.
I have a different length records in a file. I am separating the files based on the length using awk command.
The command is working fine if the record is not having any... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anthuvan
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
git-stripspace
GIT-STRIPSPACE(1) Git Manual GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)NAME
git-stripspace - Remove unnecessary whitespace
SYNOPSIS
git stripspace [-s | --strip-comments] < input
DESCRIPTION
Clean the input in the manner used by Git for text such as commit messages, notes, tags and branch descriptions.
With no arguments, this will:
o remove trailing whitespace from all lines
o collapse multiple consecutive empty lines into one empty line
o remove empty lines from the beginning and end of the input
o add a missing
to the last line if necessary.
In the case where the input consists entirely of whitespace characters, no output will be produced.
NOTE: This is intended for cleaning metadata, prefer the --whitespace=fix mode of git-apply(1) for correcting whitespace of patches or
files in the repository.
OPTIONS -s, --strip-comments
Skip and remove all lines starting with comment character (default #).
-c, --comment-lines
Prepend comment character and blank to each line. Lines will automatically be terminated with a newline. On empty lines, only the
comment character will be prepended.
EXAMPLES
Given the following noisy input with $ indicating the end of a line:
|A brief introduction $
| $
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line $
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out. $
| $
|The end.$
| $
Use git stripspace with no arguments to obtain:
|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|# with a commented-out line$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|# An old paragraph, also commented-out.$
|$
|The end.$
Use git stripspace --strip-comments to obtain:
|A brief introduction$
|$
|A new paragraph$
|explaining lots of stuff.$
|$
|The end.$
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.5.3 01/14/2014 GIT-STRIPSPACE(1)