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Old 02-16-2009
Need help in a line formatting
i have a script that check for a file called TNS.txt.I need little help in formatting

TNS.txt
Code:
0001804026

what i want is whenever there is space after the digit it should be rejected or should not be taken into account.

TNS.txt with space:
Code:
0001804026[space]

wc -c 
11

The below command is not working:The result should be 10
Code:
0001804026[space]

cat TNS.txt | grep -v "^$" | wc -c
11

How to ignore spaces in the same line ?
Last edited by ali560045; 02-16-2009 at 02:36 AM..
# 2  
Old 02-16-2009
This might help you

Code:
$ echo "0001804026" | awk -F "" '{print NF}'

# 3  
Old 02-16-2009
Hope this helps:

Code:
sed "/  *$/d" TNS.txt

# 4  
Old 02-16-2009
jaduks and angheloko, the OP wants to get rid of the trailing space. One way, assuming you have only 1 column in your file:

Code:
awk '{print $1}' file > newfile

Regards
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Old 02-16-2009
Quote:
jaduks and angheloko, the OP wants to get rid of the trailing space. One way, assuming you have only 1 column in your file:

Oh, my bad. I misinterpreted because of this line. I though that the "whole" line should be ignored. Sorry man :P


Quote:
what i want is whenever there is space after the digit it should be rejected or should not be taken into account.
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