On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 13:36:53 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 09:46 -0500 on 06/07/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: DFSORT - >How to select last 8 bytes in variable length : > >>On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:28:01 +0900, Minoru Massaki wrote: >> >>>Hello >>> >>>There is a input file of variable length records. >>>I want to insert the last 8 bytes of a record to front of the record as >>>following sample. ... >>> >>Must it be DFSORT? For example: >> >>508 $ cat last8; sh last8 >>#! /bin/sh -x >> >>echo "\ >>RECORD01X11AAAAAAAA >>RECORD02Y2BBBBBBBB >>RECORD03ZCCCCCCC >>RECORD044A4444444DDDDDDDD >>RECORD0555B55555555EEEEEEEE" | >> >>sed 's/\(.*\)\(........\)/\2 \1/' >> >>AAAAAAAA RECORD01X11 >>BBBBBBBB RECORD02Y2 >>ZCCCCCCC RECORD03 >>DDDDDDDD RECORD044A4444444 >>EEEEEEEE RECORD0555B55555555 >>509 $ >> >>Is it then possible to pipe the output of "sed" into SORTIN? >> >>-- gil > >While this may be a way of doing this your script has an error (if >the sample output is accurate). The request was to append the last 8 >characters to the record while your sample moves it there (dropping >these characters from the altered record). > Just add another \2 after\1.
But the OP also said this: "Record data before the last 8 bytes may contain x'00' thru x'FF' " That would mean there could be end-of-line characters and hex 00 characters in a record, which would mean "sed" would not work. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
