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I need a script that reads from a file, in a while loop, gets each line from a file and does something with it...

while (!in.eof())
{

in.getline(string, 256);


}
something like that in C...

is there a perl equivalent to sscanf? or something where I get the strings separated by spaces?

How do I strip of the path from the complete filename

for example

$file = "/home/docs/hw1.doc";

how do I extract the "/home/docs/" part?

Hi,
I have another question, I am very new to scripting. I am using c shell.
I am trying to get the length of a variable. Right now I am using
set var = 12
echo $#var

but the # operator isn't...

Do you know the limit on awks for length of records? I am only interested in the first 80 bytes of the line, does that make a difference? Also, can't I equate a byte = 1 character?

I tried the sed command, but it did not output anything???

What if I want to go to byte 24 and replace it, instead of knowing which character?

can I seek to a particular byte in a file and replace it using awk?
if so, how?

I figured it out, thanks!

First of all I am using C shell.

I have a variable destDirectory that holds a path.

the path includes an environment variable($user)

when I try to execute a command within the script, the...