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Re: How to get a variable length ASCII file from SQL*PLUS output

From: Ian Cary <cary_at_gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com>
Date: 1997/10/02
Message-ID: <343394F5.1762@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com>#1/1 







Bu Yun Fei wrote:

>




> Appreciate if anyone could tell me how to convert a fixed length text file

> to a variable length file by using certain UNIX command.




As it is trailing spaces that are being appended you could use



sed -e "s/ *$//" infile >outfile



to remove them



Cheers,



Ian
Received on Thu Oct 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT












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