On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:04:30 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>I've got a dataset that has been mangled through some misguided efforts such
>that original record boundaries have been lost. It used to be RECFM=V and
>now it is RECFM=F
>
>As luck would have it, every original record begins with the same hex value.
>Can anyone suggest a simple tool -- z/OS, USS, or Windows -- that would
>reformat the records breaking on every occurrence of a particular byte
>value?
>
Having RTFM a little more, I'd go with (untested):
cp -B "//'BAD.DATA.SET'" /dev/fd/1 |
tr '\???\025' '\025\???' |
cp /dev/fd/0 "//'BETTER.DATA.SET'"
o where \??? is the _octal_ value of your delimiter character (\025 is octal
newline).
o Preallocate your BETTER.DATA.SET.
Oops. This loses your delimiter character. Put it back with sed.
-- gil
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