Read a text file and print the content..

Shell Programming and Scripting
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hello all
i request you to give the solution for the following problem..

I want read the text file.and print the contents character by character..like if the text file contains google means..i want to print

g
go
goo
goog
googl
google

like this Using unix Shell scripting...

without using awk i need the scripts...
please help me
thanks

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$> awk '{for(x=1;x<=length($0);x++){print substr($0,0,x)}}' file
g
go
goo
goog
googl
google

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awk '{s="";for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)print s=s$i}' FS= infile
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fold -w1 file | perl -nle 'push @x, $_; print @x'
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without using awk..i need the scripts

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It's amazing how you manage to both quote the guy accusing you of doing homework, and confirm that you're doing homework in the same post.

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[root@sistem1lnx ~]# cat google
google
[root@sistem1lnx ~]# ./script google
g
go
goo
goog
googl
google

 cat script
#!/bin/bash
xcount=$( (cat google | grep -o "." | wc -l) )
for i in $(seq 1 $xcount)
do
    cat $1 | fold -w$i | sed -n '1p'
  done

I hope give a idea this..
And you must try to do your homework yourself :slight_smile:
When you start to share your ideas then we try to help you always :wink:

Good works
Good lucks
Regards ygemici

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