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Thanks for both replies, that fixed my problem.

I have a script that sequentially read thru a file in a while do loop. However leading spaces from the records are removed by the read, is there anyway to keep these spaces. example while read -r line do PROCESS goes here done < $PrintFile If my line is " Here is some text", $line...

Thanks for the input to date but awk has the same results as the csplit. It will not recognise the lines with the PCL codes. For example if I do awk '{print $0}' input.file then anything following the PCL codes (including the codes) are not printed. I need to play with either grep or sed as...

How would I accomplish this with sed or awk. I can see how I could match the first line by the unique ID but then how would I make the script print the rest of the letter. Basically I need to do the following: Identify the first line of letter (this will contain the id) Print this line to...

Basically what I have is a large file containing the letters. On the first line of each letter (along with some other information) is a unique id. What I want the script to do is to be able to accept as input a list of id's and copy the full letter for those ids to a new file to be later...

Would anyone know of a workaround for this

I have a file which contains PCL codes as well as other text records. Its basically a file with formatted letters. I have written a script which takes some id's as input and strips off the letters for those ids using csplit within a loop. The script works fine except the lines with PCL codes are...

I have just installed a new Western Digital Harddrive 80GB on my Sony Vaio computer. Drive is partitioned 40/20/20. I now need to install operating system. When I boot using Win98 Startupdisk I can access the CDROM but the 3 partitions are not found hance when I try to run setup it fails. When...

I have just installed a new Western Digital Harddrive 80GB on my Sony Vaio computer. Drive is partitioned 40/20/20. I now need to install operating system. When I boot using Win98 Startupdisk I can access the CDROM but the 3 partitions are not found hance when I try to run setup it fails. When...