Hi,


I've a text file that has a formfeed character at the beginning.
I want to get rid of this formfeed character using sed.

But I don't know how to specify the formfeed character.
I've tried \014 (octal for formfeed), \f but still not works.


Regards,


Johnny

There've been quite a few posts on removing control characters.
Here's a couple:

Removing carriage return characters from file
getting rid of control characters

Hi, oombera,


Thanks for the information.

Actually I use ORACLE SQLPLUS to generate
a text file with form feeds before each page
(including the 1st page).
So I want to get rid of the FIRST formfeed so as
not to waste a piece of paper.

I try to use sed with a command

1s/\f//

but does not work.


Regards,


Johnny

try...

tr -d "\f" <filename>

warm regards,
Vishnu

Hi, Vishnu,


Thanks for the information.

But tr -d "\f" will remove all FF,
not just the FIRST FF.


Regards,


Johnny

If the form-feed is within the first 10 lines, try.... ....where ^L is Ctrl-V Ctrl-L

OR

To remove only the first line-feed in the file, try....