Shell Programming and Scripting

We have made several suggestions. We have tested them on the sample data you have provided and they do exactly what you have asked them to do.

You say they do not work. But, that doesn't help. The output you showed us in post #9 in this thread shows that the output produced is exactly what you asked for. Please pick a few lines of your input file that are NOT processed correctly and copy them into a file named bad_input. Then run the commands:

Code:

cat bad_input
od -bc < bad_input
/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' bad_input > bad_output
od -bc < bad_output

and show us the exact, complete output (not just some 32 character sample) in CODE tags. It should be obvious by now that if we can't see what is going wrong, we can't help.

Thanks for the reply Don. I will work on this and will get back to you.

Hi Don,

I have tried the command you suggested

Code:

/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' bad_input > bad_output

and it worked fine now in my sample file and also in the original file.
Thank you so much for your help and suggestions.

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Also Thanks to Rudi and Aia