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Hi,

I need help in printing files from a directory.

eg: a directory called /home/ABC and there are 3 files in it.

I need to give printout one bye one. One more thing is I need to print date...

someone gave me one option like

echo -n "ENTER"
read -n 50 name

but it didnt work

even i was thinking that there is nothing like that in unix

yes am looking for something where the user will not be able to enter more than 50 chars at the prompt

like...

echo "Enter string"
name string

here I need some code where it will beep or...

some please help me on this

Thank you but I couldnt succeed. First line of my script is #!/bin/sh

The error am getting is "A specified flag is not valid for this command"

Need some help, thanks, some please help me

Hi,

am working on bash shell, could you help me on this, this is the code

echo "Enter the text"
read text

which should not allow the user to enter more than 50 chars

help me, thanks in...

am working on korn shell, could you help me on this, this is the code

echo "Enter the text"
read text

which should not allow the user to enter more than 50 chars

am looking like something...
eg: Input:testing

and the cursor should stop after a particular length and not allow user to enter any more chars in shell scripting not awk

thanks for the reply. Actually am looking like something...
eg: Input:testing

and the cursor should stop after a particular length and not allow user to enter any more chars in shell scripting...

When my script is run, it will ask the user to enter some text and the user should be restricted not to enter more than 50 chars. Is there any command which I can use with "read" command? Help me...

thanks a lot for the solution, its working perfectly

Hi, I have 2 files

file 1
----

10013 This is a text
10014 This is a test
10015 This is a temp

file 2
----

10013 010014737 ADSM 1300004 E
10014 ...

Hi, need a small change to the script, the output is perfect, change is

characters 1-4 should be a number - its perfect
characters 5-259 should be the remaining - its perfect
character 260...

Thank you again!!!

Thanks a million, its working great!!!, could you please let me know why u used 2>/dev/null

i will try that, the output seems to be exactly what i wanted but i dont need space & doube quotes in between 1081 "WPCW

output should be like this:
1081WPCW 19 - CW/AM1, WPCB 40 - FAMN/CORNER,...

when the lines are joined, a comma can be appended or space and there is no range of numbers but always 4 digit numbers, if double quotes are removed then its good, thank you

Hi, thanks for the reply, each line should start with a number like 1081 and all the lines of text should be joined till next number 1082.

so output should be like

1081WPCW 19 - CW/AM1, WPCB 40...

Hi, i have a file like this below, and it my have n no. of lines. Moderator gave me a solution with awk, but it was working only for the first 2 lines because awk has a limitation. can anyone give me...

oh is it, i have only awk, gawk is not working, and am on HP, please help

Hi, i have a file like this below, it worked on first 2 lines but not from the next, the error it was showing was "1086 "WPCW 19 - CW/A cannot be longer than 3000 bytes"

1081 "WPCW 19 -...

hi, the solution which you have provided below is working fine for only 2 lines in a file just like the sample which i have given, i want that to work for n no. of lines, thank you

nawk -v RS=''...

yes

INPUT is :

1086 "WPCW 19 - CW/AM1, WFPT-DT3 28 - V-ME, WTRF-DT2 32 - F/MY
WATCH WPGH 53 F & WWCP 08 F

1087 "WPCW 19 - CW/AM1, WPCB 40 - FAMN/CORNER,
WATCH WPXI 11 N & WPIX 11 CW...

Hi, thanks a lot for your response, the solution provided by the moderator is really excellent, so I want to continue that, thanks a lot for your help

I guess we got it wrong, I need comma only from the next line not like 1234,ABCD, when next line is joined then I need the comma and quotes removed, thanks