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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove ^I character from a UNIX file ? Post 302738001 by RudiC on Friday 30th of November 2012 07:49:41 AM
Old 11-30-2012
^I is the <TAB> character, separating fields in your file. You cann deal with it from within awk, e.g. by setting <TAB> as the field separator or by removing it when working on a line. You can enter it using "\t" in most awk implementations.
 

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gnome-character-map(1)						   User Commands					    gnome-character-map(1)

NAME
gnome-character-map, gucharmap - insert special characters into a document SYNOPSIS
gnome-character-map [--font=string] DESCRIPTION
The Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents. Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the characters are not available on a standard keyboard. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --font=string Specify the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when you start Character Map. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching Character Map example% gnome-character-map Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20" EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-character-map Executable for Character Map. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-character-map | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Character Map Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003. SunOS 5.10 20 Jan 2004 gnome-character-map(1)
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