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Old 02-20-2013
Can't able to view the data in a file using the VI editor
I am unable to view the data in a file using the vi editor.....it is showing as all @ ( at the rate symbols).

When I use the cat command, it showing the data.

Please help me to how to view the data in VI editor, as I need to edit the data. Even I tried to edit using sed but that couldn't help in editing it.


Thanks,
Surendra
# 2  
Old 02-20-2013
Try od -c | more to see if there are lots of control characters (i.e. between octal 000 and 017).

I cannot think of it offhand, but anyone familiar with tr can give you a quick command to filter out non-printable characters. I just do not do that often enough to type it from memory.
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Old 02-20-2013
I couldn't find any special character except space ( showing as sp) using the<code>od -c</code> command.
# 4  
Old 02-20-2013
What's your locale?
# 5  
Old 02-20-2013
Code:
LANG=en_GB
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME=C
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_ALL=

I could also see another locale which is specific to the application

Code:
English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary

Last edited by zaxxon; 02-20-2013 at 07:58 AM..
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Old 02-20-2013
Pls give us SOME lines of your file in binary, e.g. od -tx1 file.
# 7  
Old 02-20-2013
Code:
0000000  55 4e 42 2b 55 4e 4f 41 3a 33 2b 35 39 30 39 30
0000020  30 30 37 38 39 30 36 37 3a 31 34 2b 35 30 30 30
0000040  31 31 39 30 30 30 30 30 36 3a 31 34 2b 31 33 30
0000060  32 31 39 3a 30 38 31 31 2b 36 35 35 37 30 30 30
0000100  30 31 30 30 30 31 30 2b 2b 49 4e 56 4f 49 43 2b
0000120  2b 2b 2b 31 27 55 4e 48 2b 31 2b 49 4e 56 4f 49

Last edited by tsurendra; 02-20-2013 at 08:05 AM..
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