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Old 10-28-2010
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Originally Posted by iga3725
Doesn't work on AIX.. but works fine on linux... dont know what's the problem :-(

thanks..
Once again..... what does echo ${COLUMNS} return?

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Quote:
Originally Posted by iga3725
Doesn't work on AIX.. but works fine on linux... dont know what's the problem :-(

echo $COLUMNS does not retunr nothing..

thanks
make sure that 'resize' is in your $PATH or specify an absolute pathname to it.
try this:
Code:
nawk -v width=$(resize | nawk -F'[=;]' '/COLUMNS/{print $2}') 'BEGIN{$width=OFS="*";print}'

Last edited by vgersh99; 10-28-2010 at 12:28 PM..
# 9  
Old 10-28-2010
DONE!, works perfectly with this last code... :-)

Thanks a lot!
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