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)
If someone out there could help me out with this problem. I would really appreciate it.
I am trying to convert xml into text file(fixed length) using Unix Borne shell scripts.
My xml file:
<root>
<header_rec recordtype="00">
<record_id>00</record_id>
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Hi, all.
I need to convert a file tab delimited/variable length file in AIX to a fixed lenght file delimited by spaces. This is the input file:
10200002<tab>US$ COM<tab>16/12/2008<tab>2,3775<tab>2,3783
19300978<tab>EURO<tab>16/12/2008<tab>3,28523<tab>3,28657
And this is the expected... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a fixed length text file that needs to be cut into individual files in aix and facing padding issues. If I have multiple blank spaces in the file it is just making it one while cutting the files..
Eg:-
$ - blank space
filename:file.txt
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Hi,
Can anyone help with a effective solution ?
I need to change a variable length text field (between 1 - 18 characters) to a fixed length text of 18 characters with the unused portion, at the end, filled with spaces.
The text field is actually field 10 of a .csv file however I could cut... (7 Replies)
I am very new to scripting and need to write a script that will extract the account number from a line that begins with HDR. For example, the file is as follows
HDR2010072600300405505100726 00300405505
LBJ FREEWAY DALLAS
TELEGRAPH ... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix. I need to insert a variable which contains some lines of text into a text file after fixed number of lines..
Please help me on this..
Thanks in Advance,
Amrutha (3 Replies)
How do I extract values in a few columns in a row of a fixed length file?
If there are 8 columns and I need to extract values of 2nd,4th and 6 th columns, how do i do that? I used cut command, this I used only for one column. How do I do it more than one column?
The below command will give... (1 Reply)
I have a fixed width file of length 53. when is try to get the lengh of the record of that file i get 2 different answers.
awk '{print length;exit}' <File_name>
The above code gives me length 50.
wc -L <File_name>
The above code gives me length 53.
Please clarify on... (2 Replies)
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shanty
SHANTY(1) Shanty SHANTY(1)NAME
Shanty - Makes a PostScript file from an image and some text.
SYNOPSIS
shanty -i image_file [-t text_file] [-o output_file] [-s paper_size] [-d density] [-m margin] [-b background_color] [-x padding] [-n title]
[-l orientation] [-rtl] [-btt] [-f font_name] [-altgd]
DESCRIPTION
Shanty takes a text file and an image (PNG or JPG) and creates a PostScript file where one pixel in the image becomes one character in the
PostScript.
OPTIONS -i, -image
Name of the image to load in. JPG and PNG images are supported. This is the only compulsory field.
-t, -text Name of the text file to load in, if omitted STDIN is used.
-o, -output
Name of the PostScript file to produce, if omitted STDOUT is used.
-s, -size Size of the paper to work with. This field should be one of: "a0", "a2", "a3", "a4", "a5", "a6", "letter", "broadsheet",
"ledger", "tabloid", "legal", "executive" and "36x36". Default is "a4".
-d, -density
Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.
-m, -margin
The margins of the page in cm. Default is 1.
-b, -background
The colour of a backing rectangle to place behind the text. Colours are specified as "R,G,B" with each value between 0 and 255.
"off" means no backing colour. Default is "off".
-x, -p, -padding
Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.
-n, -title
The title of the output to write as meta-data in the PostScript file. Default is "Shanty output".
-l, -orientation
The orientation of the paper, can be "portrait", "landscape" or "auto". Default is "auto".
-rtl Switch to right-to-left text.
-btt Switch to bottom-to-top text.
-f, -font Specify font. The font name specified must be visible to the not just make a font magically appear. Default is "Courier-Bold".
-altgd If you have problems loading the GD library, try this switch.
HOMEPAGE
<http://www.codebunny.org/coding/shanty/>
AUTHOR
Duncan Martin <duncan@codebunny.org>
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to DFB <http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb/> and contributors to comp.lang.postscript.
Duncan Martin 6 October 2006 SHANTY(1)