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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sed append newline character Post 302209180 by chihung on Thursday 26th of June 2008 05:57:56 AM
Old 06-26-2008
It shouldn't assign the newline to the variable

You can do a 'od -c' on the input file to see whether there is any 'special character'

Alternatively, just do one more round of pipe to avoid the problem

./a.sh input.txt info.txt | egrep -v '^$'
 

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NAME
fribidi_get_mirror_char - get mirrored character SYNOPSIS
#include <fribidi.h> fribidi_boolean fribidi_get_mirror_char ( FriBidiChar ch, FriBidiChar *mirrored_ch ); PARAMETERS
FriBidiChar ch Input character. FriBidiChar *mirrored_ch Output mirrored character. DESCRIPTION
This function finds the mirrored equivalent of a character as defined in the file BidiMirroring.txt of the Unicode Character Database available at http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiMirroring.txt. If the input character is a declared as a mirroring character in the Unicode standard and has a mirrored equivalent. The matching mir- rored character is put in the output, otherwise the input character itself is put. RETURNS
If the character has a mirroring equivalent or not. SEE ALSO
fribidi_charset_to_unicode(3), fribidi_unicode_to_charset(3), fribidi_parse_charset(3), fribidi_shape_arabic(3), fribidi_get_par_direc- tion(3), fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_reorder_line(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type(3), fribidi_get_bidi_types(3), fribidi_get_bidi_type_name(3), fribidi_debug_status(3), fribidi_mirroring_status(3), fribidi_set_mirroring(3), fribidi_reorder_nsm_sta- tus(3), fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(3), fribidi_log2vis_get_embedding_levels(3), fribidi_get_type(3), fribidi_get_type_internal(3), fribidi_remove_bidi_marks(3), fribidi_log2vis(3), fribidi_join_arabic(3), fribidi_get_joining_type(3), fribidi_get_joining_types(3), fribidi_get_joining_type_name(3), fribidi_shape_mirroring(3), fribidi_shape(3) GNU FriBidi 0.19.3 25 August 2012 fribidi_get_mirror_char(3)
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