Hi all,
I have a shell script which is called with an arbitrary
message argument. Punctuation excludes * ? | chars.
It processes it via an AWK command line 'script' and dumps the
result in a file for the SMS sender...
Nice and simple.
Except that the AWK script seems to duplicate the last
On 2006-07-25 21:43, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I have a shell script which is called with an arbitrary message
argument. Punctuation excludes * ? | chars.
It processes it via an AWK command line 'script' and dumps the result
in a file for the SMS sender...
Nice and
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Murray Taylor thusly...
# generate the sms message
# the awk code forces the message to be 160 chars
...
tmpfile=`mktemp -t sms`
echo ${phone} ${tmpfile}
${AWK} '{ printf %-0.159s, $0 }' ${tmpfile} EOF2
`echo $msg`
EOF2
As it is, any line
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:51:02AM -0400, Parv wrote:
As it is, any line longer than 159 characters will just overflow.
You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line. Even after that
modification, that won't solve your actual problem as the awk script
will just shorten EACH line (when
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Parv thusly...
You need to use substr() not awk to shorten a line.
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Dang it! I meant to use the substr() function in awk.
- Parv
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