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command to obtain lrecl

I'd want to know the command to obtain the lrecl number of a file.

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That information is metadata that is NOT stored in the file system.

If the file is carriage-control with fixed record length you could try something like this:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# $1 is paramter = file name
let bytes=`wc -c $1`
let records=`wc -l $1`
let lrecl=$bytes/$records
echo "$lrecl"

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