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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sdiff
SDIFF(1) User Commands SDIFF(1)NAME
sdiff - side-by-side merge of file differences
SYNOPSIS
sdiff [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2
DESCRIPTION
Side-by-side merge of differences between FILE1 and FILE2.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-o, --output=FILE
operate interactively, sending output to FILE
-i, --ignore-case
consider upper- and lower-case to be the same
-E, --ignore-tab-expansion
ignore changes due to tab expansion
-Z, --ignore-trailing-space
ignore white space at line end
-b, --ignore-space-change
ignore changes in the amount of white space
-W, --ignore-all-space
ignore all white space
-B, --ignore-blank-lines
ignore changes whose lines are all blank
-I, --ignore-matching-lines=RE
ignore changes all whose lines match RE
--strip-trailing-cr
strip trailing carriage return on input
-a, --text
treat all files as text
-w, --width=NUM
output at most NUM (default 130) print columns
-l, --left-column
output only the left column of common lines
-s, --suppress-common-lines
do not output common lines
-t, --expand-tabs
expand tabs to spaces in output
--tabsize=NUM
tab stops at every NUM (default 8) print columns
-d, --minimal
try hard to find a smaller set of changes
-H, --speed-large-files
assume large files, many scattered small changes
--diff-program=PROGRAM
use PROGRAM to compare files
--help display this help and exit
-v, --version
output version information and exit
If a FILE is '-', read standard input. Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble.
AUTHOR
Written by Thomas Lord.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-diffutils@gnu.org
GNU diffutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), diff3(1)
The full documentation for sdiff is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sdiff programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info sdiff
should give you access to the complete manual.
diffutils 3.6 May 2017 SDIFF(1)