Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:19:22 -0500 From: Matthew Bettinger <matt@championelevators.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mbettinger@championelevators.com Subject: Re: OT sed help Message-ID: <200209191719.28643.matt@championelevators.com> In-Reply-To: <200209191940.g8JJeUGu069968@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200209191940.g8JJeUGu069968@lurza.secnetix.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the solution. Informix fun fun ... Matt On Thursday 19 September 2002 02:40 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Matthew Bettinger <matt@championelevators.com> wrote: > > I have a flat file that I need to import into a database. The first > > field of the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8 > > characters. > > > > Does anyone know how I can use sed to count the characters in the f= irst > > field and if there are more than 8 print out a list? > > It's probably easiest to use awk for that job: > > awk '(length($1) > 8)' flatfile.txt > > Regards > Oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9ik1vXG7+MmNwciURAtgqAKCkcmKuBbKcVAy8T4kydXbQPuA7WQCcC27c pCpQllkmCZp0aIIhiWqE7lo=3D =3Dl7D5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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