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| Subject | Re: sprintf: max number of characters printed? |
| From | Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos <k.n.anagnostopoulos@gmail.com> |
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OK, replacing %s -> %120s (or %-120s) does not chop the command and prints it correctly, but it is still a mystery why %s prints the output as mentioned before since it does not chop the string corresponding to %s but the last characters of the resulting string.
files="aaaD_01.ava0 aaaD_02.ava0 aaaD06N0012n0004s+01.0000k001.0000B001.0000K000.9368i-02.2617e+00.0000m+01.0000g02.ava0 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890END"
do for [f in files]{ print sprintf("head %120s|awk '/srkappa/{printf \"(\%7.4f,\%7.4f)\",$4,$5}'",f)}
head aaaD_01.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
head aaaD_02.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
head aaaD06N0012n0004s+01.0000k001.0000B001.0000K000.9368i-02.2617e+00.0000m+01.0000g02.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
head 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890END|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
On Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 7:00:44 PM UTC+2, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos wrote:
> Hi I am trying to write a string to be used as a command in a script.
>
> When the filenames are too long the string get truncated. See e.g.:
>
> files="aaaD_01.ava0 aaaD_02.ava0 aaaD06N0012n0004s+01.0000k001.0000B001.0000K000.9368i-02.2617e+00.0000m+01.0000g02.ava0 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890"
>
> do for [f in files]{ print sprintf("head %s|awk '/srkappa/{printf \"(\%7.4f,\%7.4f)\",$4,$5}'",f)}
>
> Produces the output:
>
> head aaaD_01.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
> head aaaD_02.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$4,$5}'
> head aaaD06N0012n0004s+01.0000k001.0000B001.0000K000.9368i-02.2617e+00.0000m+01.0000g02.ava0|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7.4f)",$
> head 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890|awk '/srkappa/{printf "(%7.4f,%7
>
>
> i.e. the last two commands are incomplete. Is there a way to control this output? Thank you.
>
> I am suing gnuplot 5.2 patchlevel 8 last modified 2019-12-01 on ubuntu 20.04.
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