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Old 09-18-2007
Help with typeset in bash
Hi everybody, hoping you can help.

I'm trying to get some scripts working using bash which were written in ksh and I'm struggling with typeset. Specifically typeset -R and typeset -L. We need fixed length variables with left and right justification and bash does not seem to do it. Spent ages on Google and just seem to be getting nowhere

Thansk in advance
# 2  
Old 09-18-2007
Hi.

For some simple characteristics, but requiring more work on the part of the author of the script:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate similarities, ksh: typeset, bash: printf.

set -o nounset
echo

## Use local command version for the commands in this demonstration.

echo "ksh version = $KSH_VERSION"
bash --version | head -1
printf --version | head -1

echo

typeset -L10 L10="12345"
typeset -R10 R10="abcde"

echo " ksh with typeset:"
echo "L10 is $L10"
echo "R10 is $R10"

echo
echo " bash with printf:"
bash <<'EOF'
left="12345"
righ="abcde"

printf "left is %-10s\n" $left
printf "righ is %10s\n" $righ
EOF

exit 0

Producing:
Code:
% ./s1

ksh version = @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
printf (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1

 ksh with typeset:
L10 is 12345
R10 is      abcde

 bash with printf:
left is 12345
righ is      abcde

cheers, drl
# 3  
Old 09-18-2007
Randall R Schulz - Re: KSH to Bash conversion

Are there not open source versions of ksh?
# 4  
Old 09-18-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by porter

Are there not open source versions of ksh?
A few vendor specific versions of ksh88 are still closed source. Other than that, open source versions are all there are. ksh93 became open source on March 1, 2000.
# 5  
Old 09-19-2007
If I could use ksh there would be little point me trying to convert them to bash unfortunately sysadmins being what they are bash is all I've got. I've managed to use "tr" to get round typeset -l and -u but I'm still stuck with -L and -R to left and right justify variables and give them a fixed length, printf is no use because I'm, not printing these variables, they are needed later on in the script.

Thanks again
# 6  
Old 09-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian_H
I'm trying to get some scripts working using bash which were written in ksh and I'm struggling with typeset. Specifically typeset -R and typeset -L. We need fixed length variables with left and right justification and bash does not seem to do it. Spent ages on Google and just seem to be getting nowhere

Generally, you shouldn't use fixed width variables; rather you should specify the widths when you print them (using printf).

However, if you really do need them, you can still use printf:

Code:
var1=$( printf "%5s" "$value" )  ## Flush right
var2=$( printf "%-5s" "$value" ) ## Flush left

If you have bash3, you can use the much faster:

Code:
printf -v var1 "%5s" "$value"  ## Flush right
printf -v var2 "%-5s" "$value" ## Flush left


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