existing file to a fixed length file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I want to copy a existing file to a fixed length file. Thanks , I used awk getline and infuntion mode was using 0 as end of file. and length to give but the programs comes out without doing anything

I need the help
CM

2 
#! /usr/bin/ksh
typeset -L70 line
while read line ; do
     echo "$line"
done
exit 0
3

You could use awk...

awk '{printf "%-70s\n",$0}' infile > outfile
4

Hi,

My questions goes in the same line. rather i want to print spaces in a trailer record which i generate as a single command.

namely the trailer command

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. Is there any awk can be used??