HP-UX

OK, it appears I have muddied the waters by only explaining what I think I need.

Given that my knowledge is poor at best i'll explain the whole problem to try and give it context which will hopefully help.

I have a file which contains a hex value of 01 at the beginning of each 'record' and a hex value of '03' at the end of each record.

Within each record there are several 'lines' of data that end with a hex value of '0D0A'

So the data would look like this (crlf signifies a carriage return/line feed)

Code:

^AHIcrlf
BYEcrlf
-}^C

If I look at it in a HEX viewer I see

Code:

01 48 49 0D 0A
42 59 45 0D 0A
2D 7D 03

The problem I have is that the application I need to put the file into has the following restrictions

- The ^A character(hex value of 01) needs to be replaced with a space(hex value 20). So, I want to replace hex 01 with hex 20

- The ^C character(hex value 03) needs to be replaced with a carriage return and two line feeds(hex values 0D 0A 0A). So, I want to replace hex 03 with hex 0D 0A 0A.

What I want to end up with is

Code:

20 48 49 0D 0A
42 59 45 0D 0A
2D 7D 0D 0A 0A

Hopefully that makes what i'm aiming for a little clearer and apologies for not being accurate enough initially.

Looks like your file is form DOS/win ... Try first using dos2ux then tell us what is left that needs modification...

Try:

Code:

awk '{gsub(/\001/,FS); gsub(/\003/,"\r\n\n")}1' file > newfile

That worked like a charm thank you!