Re: Creating strings of binary zero characters

[david kerns]

probably better way, but this  shows you can...

echo hello | gawk -vL=20 'BEGIN {s=sprintf("%c", 0);for(i=0;i<L;i++)o=o
s;print o}{print}' > /tmp/padzero

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:26 AM <pjfarley3@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I have an application that needs to generate a header record in an
> otherwise
> text file where the header record has a key of binary zero characters in
> the
> first N bytes followed by normal text data like current date and other
> file-identifying information.
>
>
>
> Is there a way to generate a string of binary zero characters of length N
> using only gawk?  Or do I need to use another tool to accomplish that task?
>
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> Peter
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