If the output you showed us in post #11 was the output you get from the command:
then the problem is that there is no <newline> character at the end of the file. The read command reads lines of input until it hits EOF, and without a <newline> character there is no line.
By definition, non-empty text files end with a <newline> character. By convention, a file with the .txt filename extension should be a text file.
If you are using an editor that creates files in DOS text file format (with <carriage-return><newline> two character line separators and no last line terminator), it is going to cause you headaches whenever you try to use those files on UNIX-like operating systems. Ffix your input file(s) so that they use UNIX <newline> single character line terminators. Then try our suggestions again.
NOTE that the text files containing the code we have suggested MUST also be UNIX format text files; not DOS format text files.
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Hi All,
I'll get a file whose 2nd line contains 3 fields: filename(variable length), file size char(10), and record count int(10). How do I cut it and put it into 3 variables?
eg: abcd.csv01234567891111111111
now I want: $one = abcd.csv, $two = 0123456789, $three = 1111111111.
I also... (8 Replies)
I would like to make a script to read three variables (no fixed length or position) from a line and write them into a file, with fixed length and right-justified in each column. The fixed text (text1-text4) prior to the thee variables and the variables themselves are originally separated by spaces... (3 Replies)
I need to save my enviroment variables,specially the $PATH.When I put it on .cshrc at next reboot I lost the configuration.How can avoid this?Thanks (2 Replies)
I have one line files with 17 records separated by a semi-colon. I need to create a variable from each record, which I can do via a separate awk for each one, but I know there has to be a better way. Along with pulling out the variable, I need to convert some url coding like a + to a space, etc.... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file, let's call it "info.tmp" that contains data like this ..
ABC123456
PCX333445
BCD789833
I need to read "info.tmp" and for each line add strings in a way that the final output is
put /logs/ua/dummy.trigger 'AAA00001.FTP.XXX.BLA03A01.xxxxxx(+1)'
where XXX... (5 Replies)
Hey all,
Unfortunately I have only basic knowledge of awk and/or scripting. If I have a file with lines that can look similar to this:
Name=line1 Arg1=valueA Arg2=valueB Arg3=valueC
Name=line2 Arg1=valueD
Name=line3 Arg1=valueE Arg3=valueF
Name=line4 Arg2=valueG ... (4 Replies)
How can I read a string delimited on spaces and assign the fields to incremented variables.
For example:
Given $exts= txt dat mov
I want to read in $exts and have "txt" "dat" and "mov" assigned to incremented variables like $ext1, $ext2, etc. I would like to do this in a loop so that I can... (4 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post here and I am a newbie. :)
I have a file that looks like this :
Introduction:Intro_123.html
Product definition:Prod_def.html
System Setup:SSetup-64bit.html
Setting up user accounts:Set_user_acc.html
I tried to create a script that would output "The filename... (3 Replies)
Hey guyz,
I have a table which shows the presence or absence of my variables (A,B,C,...) in my observations (1,2,3,...)
* A B C ...
1 1 0 1
2 1 1 0
3 1 0 0
...
I want to calculate the co-presence of my variables. to have a table shows the pairwise presence of the variables (have... (1 Reply)
Hello
Just edited the entry to make it easier to understand what i want
How can i achieve this: GOAL:
read 2 field from a table with PSQL
result of this PSQL command is this
INSTALLEDLANG=$(su - postgres -c "psql -A -t -q -c -d ${DBNAME} -t -c 'SELECT code, iso_code from res_lang'")
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: winston6071
0 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OSX
gencat
GENCAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual GENCAT(1)NAME
gencat -- NLS catalog compiler
SYNOPSIS
gencat output-file input-files...
DESCRIPTION
The gencat utility merges the text NLS input files input-files... into a formatted message catalog file output-file. The file output-file
will be created if it does not already exist. If output-file does exist, its messages will be included in the new output-file. If set and
message numbers collide, the new message text defined in input-files... will replace the old message text currently contained in output-file.
INPUT FILES
The format of a message text source file is defined below. Note that the fields of a message text source line are separated by a single
space character: any other space characters are considered to be part of the field contents.
$set n comment
This line specifies the set identifier of the following messages until the next $set or end-of-file appears. The argument n is the set
identifier which is defined as a number in the range [1, (NL_SETMAX)]. Set identifiers must occur in ascending order within a single
source file, but need not be contiguous. Any string following a space following the set identifier is treated as a comment. If no $set
directive is specified in a given source file, all messages will be located in the default message set NL_SETD.
$del n comment
This line deletes messages from set n from a message catalog. The n specifies a set number. Any string following a space following the
set number is treated as a comment.
$ comment
A line beginning with $ followed by a space is treated as a comment.
m message-text
A message line consists of a message identifier m in the range [1, (NL_MSGMAX)]. The message-text is stored in the message catalog with
the set identifier specified by the last $set directive, and the message identifier m. If the message-text is empty, and there is a
space character following the message identifier, an empty string is stored in the message catalog. If the message-text is empty, and
if there is no space character following the message identifier, then the existing message in the current set with the specified message
identifier is deleted from the catalog. Message identifiers must be in ascending order within a single set, but need not be contiguous.
The message-text length must be in the range [0, (NL_TEXTMAX)].
$quote c
This line specifies an optional quote character c which can be used to surround message-text so that trailing space or empty messages
are visible in message source files. By default, or if an empty $quote directive is specified, no quoting of message-text will be rec-
ognized.
Empty lines in message source files are ignored. The effect of lines beginning with any character other than those described above is unde-
fined.
Text strings can contain the following special characters and escape sequences. In addition, if a quote character is defined, it may be
escaped as well to embed a literal quote character.
line feed
horizontal tab
v vertical tab
backspace
carriage return
f form feed
\ backslash
ooo octal number in the range [000, 377]
A backslash character immediately before the end of the line in a file is used to continue the line onto the next line, e.g.:
1 This line is continued
on this line.
If the character following the backslash is not one of those specified, the backslash is ignored.
DIAGNOSTICS
The gencat utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO catclose(3), catgets(3), catopen(3)STANDARDS
The gencat utility is compliant with the X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4 (``XPG4'') standard.
AUTHORS
This manual page was originally written by Ken Stailey and later revised by Terry Lambert.
BUGS
A message catalog file created from a blank input file cannot be revised; it must be deleted and recreated.
BSD June 11, 1997 BSD