using c-shell, does anyone know how to send control characters to the printer before the job?
I need to set a printer to print in condensed mode
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Hi,
When I do a man and save it into a file, I end up getting a lot of control characters. How can I remove them??
I tried this:
/1,$ s/^H//g
But I get an error saying "no previous regular expression".
Can someone help me with this.
Thanks,
Aravind (5 Replies)
Can somebody please help me with the query. ?
I want a part of program of which should look for control characters in the flat file , when it finds it, displaying message that Control Characters found..!
Please help me (1 Reply)
Can somebody please help me with the query. ?
I want a part of program of which should look for control characters in the flat file , when it finds it, displaying message that Control Characters found..!
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I have developed a small script to remove the Control M characters that get embedded when we move any file from Windows to Unix. For some reason, its not working in all scenarios. Some times I still see the ^M not being removed. Is there anything missing in the script:
cd ${inputDir}... (7 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Hi,
My files are showing some control characters in vi editor
^M
^@ and somtimes
^H
I removed ^M with %s/^M//g command
but how to represent ^@ and ^H
e.g. for ^M it is hold ctrl then v and m..
Please help..
I am very new to unix.. (7 Replies)
Hello dears,
Please tell me how can I replace control characters with normal string. I have a file that contains normal string and ^A ^C control characters. I tried to use sed and awk without any luck.
sed 's/^A/foo/g' text > text1 //not worked
sed 's/\x01/foo/g' text > text1 ... (6 Replies)
Hallo Team,
I am trying to get rid of the dollar sign. I managed to remove all the other special characters but i am struggling with this one.
-bash-3.2$ cat -e missing_revenue_20141112.csv|less|head
BW0522168531211141180935668@196.23.110.141$
BW092218784121114-370120610@196.23.110.141$... (4 Replies)
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tput
tput(1) General Commands Manual tput(1)NAME
tput - query terminfo database
SYNOPSIS
type] capname...
type] capname [parms...]
DESCRIPTION
The command uses the database to make terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell (see terminfo(4)). The com-
mand outputs a string if the attribute (capname) is of type string, or an integer if the attribute is of type integer. If the attribute is
of type boolean, simply sets the exit code for TRUE, for FALSE), and produces no output.
Command-line Arguments
The command recognizes the following command-line arguments:
Indicates the type of terminal.
Normally this flag is unnecessary because the default is taken from the environment variable
capname Indicates the attribute from the database. See terminfo(4). In addition, the following capnames are supported:
Echo the clear-screen sequence for the current terminal.
Echo the initialize sequence for the current terminal.
Echo the sequence that will reset the current terminal.
parms If the capname takes optional numeric parameters, the parms will be placed in the string output by
The capnames are read from stdin and multiple capnames are allowed. Only one capname is allowed per line when reading
from stdin.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the locale to use. This overrides settings of other environment variables.
determines the language to use for messages.
determines the terminal type if the option is not specified.
EXAMPLES
Echo clear-screen sequence for the current terminal.
Print the number of columns for the current terminal.
Print the number of columns for the 70092 terminal.
Set shell variable to stand-out-mode sequence for current terminal.
This might be followed by a prompt:
Set exit code to indicate if current terminal is a hard copy terminal.
Clear the screen, move the cursor to line 10, column 20 and turn on bold.
RETURN VALUE
If capname is of type boolean, then the exit code is set to for true and for false.
If capname is not of type boolean and fails, an error message is printed, and exit code is set to one of the following depending on the
failure:
The capability name is of type integer and does not exist.
Usage error.
Unknown terminal type.
Unknown capability name.
An error occurred.
If the exit code is a is printed if a capability name of type integer is requested for a terminal that has no entry for that capability
name in the database (such as
FILES
Terminfo data base
Definition files
SEE ALSO
stty(1), untic(1M), terminfo(4).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE tput(1)