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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting escape characterz... Post 302095341 by aigles on Monday 6th of November 2006 10:15:38 AM
Old 11-06-2006
An awk solution :
Code:
BEGIN {
   c["\""] = "\""; c["'"] = "'" ; c["?"] = "?" ; c["\\"] = "\\";
   c["a"]  = "\a"; c["b"] = "\b"; c["f"] = "\f"; c["\n"] = "\n";
   c["r"]  = "\r"; c["t"] = "\t"; c["v"] = "\v";
}
{
   old_line = $0;
   new_line = "";
   while (match (old_line, /\\/)) {
     new_line = new_line substr(old_line, 1, RSTART-1) c[substr(old_line, RSTART+1, 1)];
     old_line = substr(old_line, RSTART+2);
   }
   new_line = new_line old_line;
   print new_line;
}

To convert a file :
Code:
awk -f awk_script input_file > output_file

I hope that there is a simplest way to do the work Smilie

Jean-Pierre.
 

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