You guys *all* rock!
I'd tried tr but was foiled because the file does have carriage returns at the end. I couldn't get dd to do what I wanted either in the short amount of time I spent trying.
It was easy to identify the records that were 'bad', and since there were only 64 of them, and people were jumping up and down, I just got the line numbers of the bad records and fixed it in vi. Very low-tech, I know.
Proof of the pudding should follow in a few minutes when the job in question re-cycles.
I've saved off your scripts for next time this happens - and for my own learning.
Thanks again all - as an old tv show used to (almost) say: 'The nature of ziwt was irrepressible!' :)
edit: Can't even spell ziwt. Shoot me now...
Edited by
Meerkat
Feb. 28, 2005, 05:35:40 PM EST
You guys *all* rock!
I'd tried tr but was foiled because the file does have carriage returns at the end. I couldn't get dd to do what I wanted either in the short amount of time I spent trying.
It was easy to identify the records that were 'bad', and since there were only 64 of them, and people were jumping up and down, I just got the line numbers of the bad records and fixed it in vi. Very low-tech, I know.
Proof of the pudding should follow in a few minutes when the job in question re-cycles.
I've saved off your scripts for next time this happens - and for my own learning.
Thanks again all - as an old tv show used to (almost) say: 'The nature of ziwet was irrepressible!' :)
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
