Tools to determine max record length, line size etc in a file

From: Anil Khullar, Computer Center <Anil.Khullar_at_mailhub.gc.cuny.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:46:08 -0400 (EDT)

hi,
        I've been looking for tools which give me information
similar to VMS's file utilities. I'm specifically interested
in determining information such as largest record length in a
file etc. The closest command I note is wc, which is not what I need.
The files I have received are mostly data files brought over from
various non-unix environments.

        Under VMS a combination of ANALY/RMS, and a Public domain
FILE util gave sufficient information about the file. I do understand
that RMS constructs do not exist in unix, then how do folks figure out
max line lengths, or max record size etc so that users using these files
(mostly large datasets) read it into SAS, SPSS, BMDP or whatever for their
analysis ?

Thanks in advance, and if I've been unable of clarify what I'm looking
for then I apologize for it.

Anil Khullar
Received on Sat Jan 20 1996 - 22:20:13 NZDT