"Gremlin" is a colorful term for strange, nonprinting characters that your text editor might not show you but can really foul things up anyway. That's not a literal question mark, it's ls thinking "What the hell is that? I can't print that!" so it just prints a question mark instead. Gremlin characters are even more annoying in C files, the compiler just dies.
I often get lots of gremlins from copy/pasting stuff from the internet. If that's how you ended up with that one, there's probably lots more.
You can get rid of gremlins like:
This will strip out any characters but ASCII printing characters, newline, carriage return, tab, and space.
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I am trying to get back to the root directory: I went into MAIL directory and now I can't get back to the root directory. What are the commands...
I have '?' coming up and I cannot proceed with this, HELP
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hi guys
I am studing unix and I have some questions to ask.
what is the diffrence beteween man and info?
how and when we use ~ mark?
tanks
henk ;) (1 Reply)
I am trying to write a script that prompts users for date and time, then process the gzip file into awk. During the ksh part of the script another file is created and needs to be processed with a different set of pattern matches then I need to combine the two in the end. I'm stuck at the part... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
I am trying to run some commands and I am getting question mark in filename as output files.
Which is not a literal question mark however it is not standard output format for UNIX and it can not print it.
The output files are extended with ?
For example,... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a list of xml file. I need to split the files to a different files when see the <ko> tag.
The list of filename are
B20090908.1100-20090908.1200_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1200-20090908.1300_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1300-20090908.1400_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to FTP what looks like a simple .txt file from my Windows XP desktop to my UNIX server. I've tried using several programs to do this including UltraEdit and FTP Commander. I have tried sending it ascii, binary and even let the program decide. But every time it arrives in UNIX... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have 3 files (say) in a folder as in the example below
abc_01012011.csv
def_01012011.csv
xyz_01012011.csv
I need to move these files to a different folder as follows
abc.csv
def.csv
xyz.csv
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Korn Shell on AIX 6.1
In one of our directories, we have 2 files with same names but one of those file's name has 3 trailing spaces
ls *.ctl
rconf.ctl
rconf.ctl #this file has 3 trailing spaces
Is there any way we could display these trailing spaces ? (6 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I am facing an issue with nawk command.
The data is as below:
ABC0022,BASC,Scene Package,INR,02May17,XXX4266,be?. Hotel,3,AW01,Twin Room,61272,41308,39590,39590,X,X
ABC0022,BASC,Scene Package,INR,02May17,XXX4266,be?. Hotel,3,AW02,Twin Room with Balcony,9272,85638,4520,9590,X,X... (1 Reply)