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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Printing a specific number of spaces Post 302982774 by Don Cragun on Monday 3rd of October 2016 10:27:10 PM
Old 10-03-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by SkySmart
when given a file name, im looking for the most efficient way to turn each letter of the file name into spaces.

for instance, the way im thinking of going about this is this:

Code:
MYFILE=check_disks.sh
CHANUM=$(echo ${MYFILE} | awk '{ print length }')
printf '%s\n' $CHANUM

as you can see here, i have about 3 commands that i believe can be combined into one. and im pretty sure the last printf command wouldn't work.
I must be missing the point. You show us a very inefficient script that uses two shells and an awk to print the number of characters in the value of a shell variable. I do not understand how this relates to turning each individual letter (which presumably does not include underscores and periods [and digits, but there aren't any digits in the given sample input]) into an unspecified number of <space> characters.

Please give us a clear specification of what you are trying to do, and tell us what operating system and shell you're using.
 

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C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>
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       The result structure is constructed by pmdaInstance and will contain one or more instance names and/or identifiers as specified by the inst
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       If inst has the value PM_IN_NULL and name is a null string, result will contain all the instances names and identifiers in the instance do-
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       If  inst  is  PM_IN_NULL but name is the name of an instance in the instance domain indom, then result will contain the instance identifier
       for instance name.  Note that if name contains no spaces, partial matching up to the first space in the instance name  is  performed,  i.e.
       ``1''  will  match  instance  name ``1 minute''.  If name contains an embedded space, then no partial matching is performed and name should
       match one of the instance names exactly.

       If name is a null string but inst is an instance identifier in the instance domain indom, then result will contain the  name  for  instance
       inst.  The result structure is allocated with malloc(3) and should be released by the caller with free(3).

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CAVEAT

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