PS is incredibly powerful for a scripting language. It's capable of
streaming .NET objects and not just text like bash. But I just find that
I don't need it as I can write a Python script which I can also run to z/OS.
In fact, there's me yapping on about bash when in fact I've been using
zsh for almost two years! Tip: if you like the command line and use
Windows download Terminal ASAP.
On 30/12/2020 2:19 am, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I don't make much use of PowerShell either, and love Windows Subsystem for
Linux. But PS, verbose or not, does seem quite powerful.
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I'm using PowerShell 7.2. I don't use PowerShell all that often but when
I do I'm blown away by it's power and turned off by it's verbosity. I
tend to stick to bash CLI scripts
and Python these days and my beloved Lua for embedded scripting. Ever
since Windows got a Linux subsystem I spend all my time in a bash shell :)
On 30/12/2020 2:09 am, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
It doesn't look like Windows 10 included PowerShell supports EBCDIC, but the
open source version, PowerShell 7.1 does.
PS C:\Users\fswar> Format-Hex 1047.txt
Label: C:\Users\fswar\1047.txt
Offset Bytes Ascii
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
------ ----------------------------------------------- -----
0000000000000000 F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 40 ðñòóôõö÷øù@
PS C:\Users\fswar> Get-Content 1047.txt -encoding 1047 | Out-File out.txt
-encoding ascii -nonewline
PS C:\Users\fswar> Format-Hex out.txt
Label: C:\Users\fswar\out.txt
Offset Bytes Ascii
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
------ ----------------------------------------------- -----
0000000000000000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 20 0123456789
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On 30/12/2020 1:12 am, R.S. wrote:
This is even simpler tool, maybe it address rare need - just to
truncate first nnn bytes from beginning of file
Possible usage:
truncfile -header -12384 ifile ofile
truncates/deletes header, which is 12384 bytes long, the output is
written to ofile. Ofile is shorter than ifile, the difference is 12384
bytes. No CR/LF issues, just byte after byte.
On Windows install you can WSL and use Linux tools. Or use Powershell
and do something similar. I don't use Powershell that often and have to
study to find a bash analog but it's simple using Linux.
tail -c +12385 ifile | iconv -f ibm-1047 -t utf-8 >> ofile
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