Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to print spaces in a trailer record which is a single command.

namely the unix command which i already have

recs=`wc -l $TargetFileDir/myfile.txt|cut -c1-9`;export recs;echo 'PCPC.DXDINPT.FC0.INPUTFLE.PASS'`date +%Y%m%d``printf '%015d\n' $recs` >> $TargetFileDir/myfile1.txt

I wanted add a filler of say 200 spaces at the end. Is there any way by which i can do in same command

Your printf statement should look like:

Code:

printf '%015d%-200s\n' $recs

Regards

Thanks a lot for your efforts and time.

Rather i tried with the printf arguments earlier but rather did not workout.

I re-directed the output of the command to file and when i opened the file i could not see any spaces,even with se list option.

recs=`wc -l PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS|cut -c1-9`;export recs;echo 'PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS'`date +%Y%m%d``printf '%015d%-200s\n' $recs`


Output:
PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS20080128000000000000101$

Where $ representing the end of line.

Can you provide me some more suggestions

It works fine for me, try to give an extra space as follow:

Code:

printf '%015d%-200s\n' $recs ' '

so your command should look like:

Code:

recs=`wc -l PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS|cut -c1-9`;export recs;echo 'PCPC.DXDINPT.FA0.INPUTFLE.PASS'`date +%Y%m%d``printf '%015d%-200s\n' $recs ' '`

Regards