I wannt to cut first char of any string.
str=A2465443
out put will be.
str1=A
str2=2465443.
I tried
str2=${?%srt}
str1=${str#$str2}
it is not working. (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I need to find out, if i have transferred a file from ftp thro bin mode or ascii mode. Say if i have a file called "dec.sh"( u shuld normally transfer thro ascii mode). How can i find out that dec.sh is tranferred from ftp server thro ascii mode or bin mode?
Any help would be... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have file which is having the following content.
11082202^M
10951265^M
11482003^M
12820986^M
11309561^M
11092815^M
11103308^M
13024722^M
11343958^M
11280355^M
7516723^M
i want to delete the last charecter "^M" from all the line and redirect to other line.
Please help... (1 Reply)
Hi gurus,
I have a file in unix with ascii values. I need to convert all the ascii values in the file to ascii characters. File contains nearly 20000 records with ascii values. (10 Replies)
Hey Everyone!
I have searched around for this on Unix.com and Google, and I'm either not phrasing my search properly or this is not as simple as I thought...
I have a script that runs on a nightly basis that pulls one field worth of data from an internal MySQL database and populates to an... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Using perl, how can I delete a charecter (specify the position number), in a line which starts with "GETR P" and another line starting with "GET P:=". This needs tro be done for many charecters in a line
Thanks
Vijayalakshmi (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an ascii file in which few columns are having hex values which i need to convert into ascii. Kindly suggest me what command can be used in unix shell scripting?
Thanks in Advance (2 Replies)
Hi, I have collection of letters in a column such as:
AA5678
AA9873434
..
..
I am trying to find the number of charecters in each.
"echo "AA5678"|wc -c
7----------------> why does it give 7 instead of 6? (6 Replies)
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printf
PRINTF(1) User Commands PRINTF(1)NAME
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION:
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
" double quote
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c produce no further output
e escape
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
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NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
%% a single %
%b ARGUMENT as a string with '' escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form or NNN
%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX $''
syntax.
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dled.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's
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GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PRINTF(1)