topic Re: file name in Operating System - HP-UX

file name

iranzo — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:06:54 GMT

Hello,
How to test the numbers of
caracters in a file name ?
example: fic_1.log
9 caracters for this file.
thanks a lot.

Re: file name

RAC_1 — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:10:46 GMT

echo "file_name|wc -c

Anil

Re: file name

curt larson_1 — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:11:59 GMT

fileName="fic_1.log"
print "${fileName} has ${#fileName} characters."

Re: file name

Geoff Wild — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:22:07 GMT

don't even need to cat or echo the file...

For example:

wc /etc/hosts
18 94 567 /etc/hosts

or wc -c /etc/hosts
567 /etc/hosts

Rgds...Geoff

Re: file name

RAC_1 — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:22:51 GMT

It has to be echo "file_name\c"|wc -c

Anil

Re: file name

Abdul Rahiman — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:27:25 GMT

Have you noticed the count with wc -c actually report 10 instead of 9 ?
Tou should use either ${#filename} or use awk as below to get the actual no. of characters.
echo $fname | awk {'print length'}

# fname=fic_1.log
# echo $fname | wc -c
10
# echo $fname | awk {'print length'}
9
# print ${#fname}
9