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 tell is that there is a charcter or something that says end of line even i it is not end of line.
Can anyone give me another way to count every character in a line until the line break?
Is there a null string (\000) in the line?
No there is a ^k\204 at the start
How do you read the line into the variable?
What is the output when you pipe it through hexdump or od -c?
I am jut typing the code in on the command line so it is read in at FILE listed above
od -c gives me:
\v 204 \0
for the fist set of characters.
HOW is it read into the FILE variable?
What code do you use?
\0 is a NUL and ends the string.
Ok if \0 is null how do I get around that? These are all over the record and need to be counted.
I repeat:
HOW do you get the information into the FILE variable?
As I said befor I have used one of the line in my first post. I am reading in the raw converted file. After that I don't know what you mean by reading in the file. I am jsut typing in the file name.
Please post the code that puts the line into the variable, FILE.
echo "Filename.txt" |awk -F"\0", '{print NF}'
this is waht the code looks like. just like the first post.
PLEASE put code inside
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tags.
That was not in your first post
It doesn't put anything into the FILE variable.
Where is the line that begins:
FILE=