WIDTH(1) General Commands Manual WIDTH(1)NAME
width - force all the lines of a file to a given width
SYNOPSIS
width [-n [ infile [outfile]
OPTIONS -n Outline line size
EXAMPLES
width -60 x y # Copy x to y, force lines to 60 cols
width x # Copy default (80) column lines to stdout
DESCRIPTION
The input file is copied to the output file. All lines are forced to a given size (default: 80 columns) by padding with spaces or truncat-
ing. Tabs are expanded to spaces.
SEE ALSO fold(1).
WIDTH(1)
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FOLD(1) User Commands FOLD(1)NAME
fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
SYNOPSIS
fold [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Wrap input lines in each FILE (standard input by default), writing to standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-b, --bytes
count bytes rather than columns
-c, --characters
count characters rather than columns
-s, --spaces
break at spaces
-w, --width=WIDTH
use WIDTH columns instead of 80
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report fold translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 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
The full documentation for fold is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and fold programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'fold invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 FOLD(1)
Greetings,
I would like to extract records from a fixed width text file that have unique field elements.
Data is structured like this:
John A Smith NY
Mary C Jones WA
Adam J Clark PA
Mary Jones WA
Fieldname / start-end position
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Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4
12 Completed 08 0830
12 In Progress 09 0829
11 For F U 07 0828
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Hi champs!
I have a fixed width file in which the records appear like this
11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the record of 11111
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I have had been able do the joins using sed, the thing I am... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a fixed width text file without any header row. One of the columns contains a date in YYYYMMDD format.
If the original file contains 3 dates, I want my shell script to split the file into 3 small files with data for each date.
I am a newbie and need help doing this. (14 Replies)
Hi Guys
I am checking the treads to get the answer but i am not able to get the answer for my question.
I have two files. First file is a pattern file and the second file is the file i want to search in it. Output will be the lines from file2.
File1:
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Hello,
Have been trying to develop a script that reads a string from an input file then looks up that string in a reference file to get a number, then inset that number back into the original file at a certain point (_____):
Input File:
HARRY JON _____ AA M N
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I am trying to selectively display several columns from a db2 query, which gives me a fixed-width output (partial output listed here):
--------- -------------------------- ------------ ------
000 0000000000198012 702 29
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I would like to use printf (or something else?) to create a line of text that has varying column widths. This will be used to create a fixed width file (with varying column widths). For example, consider variables $1 $2 $3 are equal to a, b, c respectively and they should be printed in column... (10 Replies)
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Hi,
I am facing a typical scenario for AWK command .
In HP- UNIX is behave as expected but in red hat linux same awk code is not give the same result.
The below code is for convert the fixed width file to pipe delimiter file in HP-unix server.
awk code:
#!/bin/awk -f
NR!=1... (11 Replies)
HI,
How do we figure out if the server is half blade server or full blade server?
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Hi All,
I need to join fixed width files on a column which is position 1 to 3 and need to have all the records from file1
file1.txt
Cu1nullL1L2
Cu2nullL1L2
Cu3nullL1L2
file2.txt
Cu1B1B2
Cu3B1B2
output.txt
Cu1L1B1L2B2
Cu2L1L2
Cu3L1B1L2B3
I tried but not getting the expected... (12 Replies)