Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

line length

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting line length
# 1  
Old 03-08-2008
line length
hi

In my script i am having echoes which have very lage output.

echo $final

sample output:

Quote:
sql.err6:17245:Cannot Delete Temp file sql.err6:17544:Cannot Delete Temp file
etc...

The output gets printed continuosly.
Is there any way by which I can put a line break after every 25 positions?

In nutshell ,
I need a neat output of my BIG echo as below:

Quote:
sql.err6:17245:Cannot D
elete Temp file sql.err6:1
7544:Cannot Delete Tem
pfile
Sreejith_VK
# 2  
Old 03-08-2008
Code:
$ echo "sql.err6:17245:Cannot Delete Temp file sql.err6:17544:Cannot Delete Temp file " | sed -e "s/.\{25\}/&\n/g"
sql.err6:17245:Cannot Del
ete Temp file sql.err6:17
544:Cannot Delete Temp fi
le

//Jadu
# 3  
Old 03-08-2008
Code:
# echo "sql.err6:17245:Cannot Delete Temp file sql.err6:17544:Cannot Delete Temp file" | fmt -w 25
sql.err6:17245:Cannot
Delete Temp file
sql.err6:17544:Cannot
Delete Temp file

# 4  
Old 03-10-2008
Excellent!!

Both of the code is working perfect.
Sreejith_VK
# 5  
Old 03-10-2008
doesn't the sql command line interface provide a set line length command? most have that feature.

What command line interface are you using?
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. OS X (Apple)

Vim line length...

The vi(m) text editor... Google is not my friend here... I have already found out that it is possible to save a pure text file without the '0x0A' newline character at the very end of the file but I can't find anything on the next question. I have written a raw audio file to quantised pure... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
6 Replies

2. Programming

Maximum length of a line

How can I change the maximum length of a programming line in fortran and C (specifically in fortran 77)? Seems the default maximum length is 72 in fortran 77. Thanks. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hbar
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check for length which exceeds specified length in a line

Hi, I have a issue, I need to loop through a comma delimited file and check for the length which exceeds specified length , if Yes truncate the string. But my problem is , I do not have to check for all the fields and the field lenght is not same for all the fields. For ex: Say my line... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: rashmisb
9 Replies

4. Programming

Is there a limit for a code line length in C?

Is there any stabdard limitation on size of a code line in C code? I am interesting in UNIX limitation, particulary on SUN. Thanks! (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: alex_5161
8 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Count line Length

I am trying to write a shell scrip that can give me the line length of a record that was in EBDIC and then converted to ASCII. Everything I try reports 1 yet the length is 2000+. I have tried echo "Line length : ${#FILE}" echo "FILE" |awk -F, '{print NF}' awk '{lenth(file)}' All I can... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: wbshrk
11 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Parse a line which has different word length

Hi All, Please let me know a command to parse the below line and find the words, I have a line like this 40609 39930 In this above line the two words are separted by space.The length of this two words may differ. I want to put 40609 in var_one and 39930 in var_two. Eg. Input line is ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: girish.raos
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

separate file by line length

hi all, i'm new in unix.... i have question, sorry if it's missplace or too silly let say i have a file name testfile.log that contains data 000001 000002 000003 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb cccccccccccccc dddddddddddddddddd 000004 i want to make new file... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: venven
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Deleting Characters at specific position in a line if the line is certain length

I've got a file that would have lines similar to: 12345678 x.00 xx.00 x.00 xxx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 23456781 x.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 x.00 xxx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 34567812 x.00 xx.00 x.00 xxx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 45678123 x.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 x.00 xxx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00 xx.00... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Cailet
10 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Length of each line.

Hi All, I have 5 different type of lines in my file TEST1.txt I need to perform the following conditions in the file If first 4 characters of the line is 1010, then length of the line should be 132 If first 4 characters of the line is 9142, then length of the line should be 41 If first... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: senthil_is
7 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

grep line length limit

Hi Friends, I am having a funny problem with grep. When I run grep 'expr' file.txt things work fine. But when try to get the line number using the -n option, i.e, grep -n 'expr' file.txt I get a message, "grep: 0652-226 Maximum line length of 2048 exceeded." If the line has more than... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: hnhegde
3 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question