01-05-2009
Oh my, of course. I guess I didnt fully understand what I had done before.
Thankyou..it works fine.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have few files in unix which are in dos format. While I am copying these files, ^M, ^@, etc characters are being generated.
I tried dos2unix command in Linux and it doesn't work.
I tried sed to remove these characters but they won't go.
I came to about this 'tr' command and tried to use it... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: chiru_h
16 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file that has semicolons in it (;) is there a way to just remove these in the file. Example
name: Joe Smith; group: Group1;
name: Mary White; group: Group2; (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bombcan
2 Replies
3. HP-UX
Hi,
I have a very huge file and it contains some unprintable characters like ^H and ^D.
If I try to remove using cat test1.ser| tr -d '\136 110'>newfile1 it is only removing ^and all spaces in the file.
How can I remove these characters (^D ^H) and keep my spaces as it is?
Thanks &... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arsheshadri
1 Replies
4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi
I have a perl script conv.pl. when i execute this file and direct i to log file I see lots of ^M characters in the log file. There is no ^M in conv.pl file. Log file is generated only after conv.pl is executed.
Please help as how to get rid of these.
This conv.pl is going to get schduled... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
0 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
I have a perl script conv.pl. when i execute this file and direct i to log file I see lots of ^M characters in the log file. There is no ^M in conv.pl file. Log file is generated only after conv.pl is executed.
Please help as how to get rid of these.
This conv.pl is going to get schduled... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
5 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Friends,
I want to remove text between two patters.
Problem is, it has random special characters like \ / | * ` ~ ! $ etc.
These random special characters has no fixed length. But these special characters are appearing between a fixed pattern
e.g.
DM&^%#|#!\/?CT
Expected output... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: anushree.a
14 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
in a file, i have records as below:
123|62|absnb|267629
123|267|28728|uiuip
123|567|26761|2676
i want to remove the non printable characters after the end of each record.
I guess there are certain charcters but not visible.
i don't know what character that is exactly.
I used... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pandeesh
2 Replies
8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have been given a shell script that I need to amend. To do the following
extract the filename from the flag file by removing the .flag extension.
# Local variables
# Find if the flag files exists
MASK=coda_mil2*.flag
# Are there any files?
bookmark="40"
fileFound=0
ls -1... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: andymay
3 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
bash-3.00$ cat temp.txt
./a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/ces.war/WEB-INF/classes/reds/common/environment.properties
./a/REA01/ces1/apps/ces_ces1_init3_aa.ear/commonproperties/hi/HostIntegration.properties... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhas85
9 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
Im having a bit of difficulty with this one and I suspect its because of the character I want to match against maybe causing me a problem, but i wanted to remove everything up to (but not including) the first instance of '{' in a string
so for example the string that I want to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hcclnoodles
2 Replies
trbsd(1) General Commands Manual trbsd(1)
NAME
trbsd - Translates characters
SYNOPSIS
trbsd [-Acs] string1 string2
trbsd -d [-Ac] string1
The trbsd command copies characters from the standard input to the standard output with substitution or deletion of selected characters.
OPTIONS
Translates on a byte-by-byte basis. When you specify this option, trbsd does not support extended characters. Complements (inverts) the
set of characters in string1 with respect to the universe of characters whose codes are 001 through 377 octal if you specify -A, and all
characters if you do not specify -A. Deletes all characters in string1 from output. Changes characters that are repeated output charac-
ters in string2 into single characters.
DESCRIPTION
Input characters from string1 are replaced with the corresponding characters in string2. The trbsd command cannot handle an ASCII NUL
( 00) in string1 or string2; it always deletes NUL from the input.
The tr command is a System V compatible version of trbsd.
Abbreviations such as a-z, standing for a string of characters whose ASCII codes run from character a to character z, inclusive, can be
used to introduce ranges of characters. Note that brackets are not special characters.
Use the escape character (backslash) to remove the special meaning from any character in a string. Use the followed by 1, 2, or 3
octal digits for the code of a character.
If a given character appears more than once in string1, the character in string2 corresponding to its last appearance in string1 will be
used in the translation.
EXAMPLES
To translate braces into parentheses, enter: trbsd '{}' '()' <textfile >newfile
This translates each { (left brace) to a ( (left parenthesis) and each } (right brace) to a ) (right parenthesis). All other char-
acters remain unchanged. To translate lowercase ASCII characters to uppercase, enter: trbsd a-z A-Z <textfile >newfile The two
strings can be of different lengths: trbsd 0-9 # <textfile >newfile
This translates each digit to a # (number sign); if string2 is too short, it is padded to the length of string1 by duplicating its
last character. To translate each string of digits to a single # (number sign), enter: trbsd -s 0-9 # <textfile >newfile To trans-
late all ASCII characters that are not specified, enter: trbsd -c ' -~' 'A-_' <textfile >newfile
This translates each nonprinting ASCII character to the corresponding control key letter ( 01 translates to A, 02 to B, and so
on). ASCII DEL (177), the character that follows ~ (tilde), translates to a ? (question mark).
SEE ALSO
Commands: ed(1), sh(1), tr(1)
Files: ascii(5)
trbsd(1)