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Old 01-29-2009
How to store the flat file in an excel sheet
Hi,

I need to automate a script.
The process in the script is as follows
Running the script abc.ksh
The report is stored in xyz (flat file)
Need to store the flat file content in an excel sheet.

Your reply is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Karthick
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Old 01-29-2009
Is you file Comma separated values (CSV)? if not you will have to convert it to...
then save the file with .csv extention
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Old 01-29-2009
Hammer & Screwdriver A question I was in fact thinking about this morning.
I can think of two ways to accomplish this.
If the infile is like
1234567890abcdeABCDE
where I want to break up field1 as 10, filed2 as 5, field3 as 5
[Note, I just typed the following, and am not sure if I have all the syntax perfect.]

Comments on what would be the better route to take?


(1) Using awk on one-line
Code:
awk '{print substr($0,1,10),","substr($0,11,5),",",substr($0,16,5)}' infile >outfile.csv

or
(2) Using awk but as a script
Code:
awk -v output="outfile.csv" '{
  aa=substr($0,1,10)
  ab=substr($0,11,5) 
  ac=substr($0,16,5)
  print aa","ab","ac >output
} ' infile

 
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