02-14-2008
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I need to have a command in Unix which output all teh records havingg junk characters in a file....
I know a command cat -tv <Filename> which opens the file and we can check for any junk character in it.
But my requirement is to fetch ONLY THOSE records having junk characters.... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sureshg_sampat
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Dear Members,
I have a file which contains ControlM characters in it.
I need a command by the means of which i should be able to identify if a file has controlM characters.
How can this be achieved.
Thanks
Sandeep (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sandeep_1105
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have one problem. I want to identify all those files which are named according to the format <name>_<date>. I have tried using awk and grep in bash but i m not able to get it correct.
Can someone please help? It's urgent !! (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: udayan_goswami
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi, I have quite a bunch of files with annoyingly long filenames. I wanted to cut the range of characters from 9-18 and just retain the first 8 characters and the .extension. any suggestion how to do it. thanks much.
original filename: 20000105_20000105_20100503.nc.asc
output filename:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ida1215
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I specify special meaning characters like ^ or $ inside a regex range. e.g
Suppose I want to search for a string that either starts with '|' character or begins with start-of-line character.
I tried the following but it does not work:
sed 's/\(\)/<do something here>/g' file1
... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to replace a range of characters by their position in each line by spaces.
I need to replace characters 95 to 145 by spaces in each line.
i tried below but it doesn't work
sed -r "s/^(.{94})(.{51})/\ /" inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
can someone please help me... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kevin Tivoli
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Im trying compare values between files and if they match I want to extract some characters in between those values for many files. They are in two directories and have the name filename but one ends in .enr. They look like this.
cat bat.1.enr
name,start,end
bat.1,231, 234
and another... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is there a way to identify the lines in a file having extended ascii characters and display the same?
For instance I have a file abc.txt having below data
aaa|bbb|111|This is first line
aaa|bbb|222|This is secõnd line
aaa|bbb|333|This is third line
aaa|bbb|444|This is foùrth line... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: decci_7
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to filter out the special character whose ascii value doesn't fall within the range "" .
Example:� or Ć. So in that case is there any defined range which will filter out this characters.
I can filter those which falls withing "" . Need to filter those special chracter which doesn't... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Abhijit Sen
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am working on Sindhi: a perso-Arabic script and since it shares the Unicode-block with over 400 other languages, quite often the database contains characters which are not wanted: illegal characters.
I have identified the character set of Sindhi which is given below:
For clarity's sake, each... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: gimley
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paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)
Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] 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 of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Also
cut(1), grep(1), pr(1)
paste(1)