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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm passing a variable to a scrpit which can be 1 to 3 characters long.
How can I force it to be three character long and add spaces to it?
The passed variable is stored in $1 and I would like to be stored in NewName
I tried without success
NewName=$(printf "%*s 3 $1)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
when I try to read a file and send email using cat and sendmail: The email received having additional spaces.(Between the letters of words in the text)
My code:
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that contains...
elm,mail
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to get the spaces in the below table to be fill up with a character " - ". For eg, coordinates 0202 is a space but i would want to fill up with " - ". Can anybody help ?
Input:
04 D H ... (15 Replies)
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5. 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
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there any command to add spaces to a lline....say i need 50 spaces between the data like
"aaabbbccc dddeeefff"
or may be like this
"aaaabbbbbbcccccdddddeeeffff "
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7. Programming
I have a file which contains numbers as follows:
1234 9876 6789 5677 3452
9087 4562 1367 2678 7891
I need to remove the empty spaces and add commas between the numbers like:
1234,9876,6789,5677,3452,
9087,4562,1367,2678,7891
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
my var is:
PATH_LOG=/opt/WebSphere/CR Comune Roma.log
a filename which contains blank chars.
How can I call it from prompt ?
Ex:
ls $PATH_LOG or
cat $PATH_LOG
tks,
Carmen- (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help.
echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a text file which is not fixed width. I want to put trailing spaces to each line and make it a 100 byte fixed width file.
Can someone please help me as soon as possible?
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Denis (1 Reply)
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