07-05-2007
Special character in my file
I have a special character in my file. It displays as a '#' sign but when I do this command I do not find the line.
fgrep 'G#ant' file1
I want to replace the special character with another value but I need to know what character it really is. Any ideas on how to replace this '#' value with a space. I tried
sed 's/G#ant/G ANT/g' file1> file2
but it does not work.
thanks for any help.
Ryan
9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Solaris
Hi together
I have 2 systems, mars and venus. The configuration is the same. Every system has a SDLT. I will now backup the datas from mars on the tapedevice from venus.
I have shareed the tapedevice (venus) and mounted on mars.
Now my problem: when I write on the mountet tapedevice, the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: MuellerUrs
1 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm having problems deleting a file with a special character and I'm hoping that somebody here can help. The file "-osample1.c" will not remove from my directory. Here is an example of what happens. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> ls *sample1*
ls: illegal option -- .
usage: ls... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hart1165
2 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i want to delete a particular character in file.
example
file name:abcsample
abc=bbbqw3/
hidh=ajjqiwio4/
xyx=hakjp/
........../
......./
i want to delete that special character (/) in abcsample file.please give the required commands for my requirement.
thank you (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: srivsn
3 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i want to delete a particular character in file.
example
file name:abcsample
abc=bbbqw3/
hidh=ajjqiwio4/
xyx=hakjp/
........../
......./
i want to delete that special character (/) in abcsample file Permnently.please give the required commands for my requirement.
required... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: srivsn
1 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
How to parse a file to see if a specific line is commented by '#' character?
filename: file1
cat file1
...
# /usr/bin/whatever
...
thank you (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: melanie_pfefer
9 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
We are getting files from sftp server through file transmission protocol & after transmission we are removing all the control M
(^M) characters from them.we are expecting various kind of special characters in the files.
we are tried removing '^M' characters through 'dos2unix' command... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Aquilis
2 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
My file has this special character "^M"
I would like to remove this characters.
eg:
abc,abc,^M
i tried using sed but doesnt work.
i used octal dump command to see special character it returns following:
015
\r
Appreciate your reply. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinnacle
6 Replies
8. Programming
I am getting error when loading data file using ctl file. I get this error only when there is special character.
Below is some data.
DataFile=>
company_id|ciu_id|english_name|iso_country_code|active|partner_name
1-2JT-122||Expert Järvenpää|FI|A|Expert Järvenpää
Control File=>
LOAD DATA... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rshivarkar
1 Replies
9. Red Hat
All,
I am having a tough time with Linux and CSV file. My CSV file gets generated from Cognos on Linux machine that contains special characters. At first instance when I do vi <filename> to that file, I can't see anything. I did tail -2 and redirected to another temp file and did vi <filename>,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: donadarsh
2 Replies
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)
NAME
paste - merge same lines of several files or subsequent lines of one file
SYNOPSIS
file1 file2 ...
list file1 file2 ...
list] file1 file2 ...
DESCRIPTION
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns in a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging). In other words, it is the horizontal counterpart of cat(1)
which concatenates vertically; i.e., one file after the other. In the option form above, replaces the function of an older command with
the same name by combining subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging). In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab char-
acter, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to standard output, so can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a
filter if is used instead of a file name.
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Without this option, the new-line characters
of all but the last file (or last line in case of the option) are replaced by a tab character. This option allows replac-
ing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
list One or more characters immediately following replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is
used circularly; i.e., when exhausted, it is reused. In parallel merging (that is, no option), the lines from the last
file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the list. The list can contain the special escape
sequences: (new-line), (tab), (backslash), and (empty string, not a null character). Quoting may be necessary if charac-
ters have special meaning to the shell. (For example, to get one backslash, use ).
Merge subsequent lines rather than one from each input file.
Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with the option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of
the file is forced to be a new-line.
Can be used in place of any file name
to read a line from the standard input (there is no prompting).
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the locale for the interpretation of text as single- and/or multi-byte characters.
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
variable. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See
environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
RETURN VALUE
These commands return the following values upon completion:
Completed successfully.
An error occurred.
EXAMPLES
List directory in one column:
List directory in four columns
Combine pairs of lines into lines
Notes
works similarly, but creates extra blanks, tabs and new-lines for a nice page layout.
DIAGNOSTICS
Except for the option, no more than - 3 input files can be specified (see limits(5)).
AUTHOR
was developed by OSF and HP.
SEE ALSO
cut(1), grep(1), pr(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
paste(1)