special character

tostay2003 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009

Hi,

I am trying to unload file from a database. Which contains few lines with the character below. Rest of the data was unloaded appropriately.

Code:

a) What does this below character means?
b) How can i remove it,
I already have

Code:

sed '/^$/d'

c) Will this effect the file by any means (If I am guessing properly, this is the eof notation)

Thanks for help

tostay2003 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009

I tried to edit the post and the character went away.

here is the character

Code:

cfajohnson · #3 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by tostay2003

I tried to edit the post and the character went away.

here is the character

Code:

There is still no character in your post. Please run the character through od, hexdump or other character converter and post it in hex or octal format.

tostay2003 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

Code:

0000000  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n  \f  \n
0000020  \f  \n  \f  \n
0000024

I got the following with

Code:

od -c

The below code isn't removing it, or may be leaving out the newline characters

Code:

tr -d "\f"

The below sed statement is deleting the complete data

Code:

sed 's[ \t]*\f[ \t]*//g' | sed '/^$/d'

cfajohnson · #5 (**permalink**) 01-06-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by tostay2003

Code:

tr -d "\f"

That works for me. try:
Code:
tr -d "\014"

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