record length

[gary phipps]

Hi all,

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


thanks in advance,

Gary.

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

If by record length, you mean line length

cat | awk '{print length}'

[Jean-Luc Oudart]

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

Jean-Luc

[gary phipps]

Excellent.

Thanks for the quick response guys

[Stefan Farrelly]

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