topic record length in Operating System - HP-UX

record length

gary phipps — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:27:39 GMT

Hi all,

nice simple one for you...how do you display the record lengths for an ascii text file?

thanks in advance,

Gary.

Re: record length

Chris Wilshaw — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:31:43 GMT

If by record length, you mean line length

cat | awk '{print length}'

Re: record length

Jean-Luc Oudart — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:33:08 GMT

For the record size of a file (for each line) :
awk '{print length ; }'

Jean-Luc

Re: record length

gary phipps — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:35:43 GMT

Excellent.

Thanks for the quick response guys

Re: record length

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:36:12 GMT

Lets use the password file as an example, to see the length of each line;

cat /etc/passwd|while true
do
read A
echo $A|wc -c # display line/record length
[ "$A" = "" ] && exit
done