Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am facing a below problem. Inorder to mak sure the below file is fixed width i am using the following command

Code:

awk '{printf("%-375s\n", $0) }

so as to add trailing spaces at the end for records of length less than 375.
Input file > inp.txt

Code:

1©1234
1234
123©1

The output file is fixed with of expected length but the data after the © is getting lost is getting padded spaces.

Output:
1<space till 375>
1234<space till 375>
123<spacetill 375>

Can you please let me know as to how to avoid this and of there is a better way to make the records in a file fixed width?

Moderator's Comments:

Code tags for code, please.

What encoding is this? Your copyright character may end up being several bytes, even though it's a single character, which awk's formatting won't take into account.

In fact, if this file really is supposed to be fixed width, the presence of a character like that may be a problem altogether.