Hi All,
I am facing a weird problem. I have got a directory structure copied from windows to Linux. Some of the folders are named like
/gfs/data/Dow Jones $5/ DJ FCBOT_O_tick_1998.zip
/gfs/data/Dow Jones $5/ DJ FCBOT_O_tick_2000.CSV
/gfs/data/Dow Jones... (6 Replies)
Hi,
How do I remove the lines where special characters or Unicode characters appear?
The following query does work but I wonder if there is a better way.
cat test.txt | egrep -v '\)|#|,|&|-|\(|\\|\/|\.'
The following lines show that my query is incomplete.
Warning: The word "*Khan" is... (1 Reply)
Hi,
On AIX 5200-07-00 I have a find command as following to delete files from a certain location that are more than 7 days old. I am being told that I cannot use -exec option to delete files from these directories.
Having said that I am more curious to know how this can be done.
an sample... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I'd like to write a script that removes any set of character from any string. The first argument would be the string, the second argument would be the characters to remove. For example:
$ myscript "My name's Santiago. What's yours?" "atu"
My nme's Snigo. Wh's yors?
I wrote the... (11 Replies)
Dear Members,
We have a file which contains some special characters. I need to replace these special character by a new line character(\n).
The Special character is \x85.
I am not sure what this character means and how we can remove it.
Any inputs are greatly appreciated.
Thanks... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory that has a file which contained special characters in the filename. Can someone please advise how to remove the file, preferably with a rm -i ?
Thanks in advance.
Listing is as below:
{oracle}> ls -1b
bplog.bkup.001
bplog.bkup.002
bplog.bkup.003
bplog.bkup.004... (1 Reply)
hello all
I am writing a perl code and i wish to remove the special characters for text.
I wish to remove all extended ascii characters. If the list of special characters is huge, how can i do this using substitute command
s/specialcharacters/null/g
I really want to code like... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a variable like
AVAIL="\
BACK:bkpstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:backtest|\
#AUTH:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
TEST:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
"
What I want to do here is that If a find # before any entry, remove the entire string... (5 Replies)
hello,
I'm trying to figure out which tool is best for recursively renaming and files or folders using the characters \/*?”<>| in their name. I've tried many examples that use Bash, Python and Perl, but I'm not much of a programmer I seem to have hit a roadblock.
Does anyone have any... (15 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have file which contains some unicode charachator like "ü". I want to replace it with some charactors. I searched in internet and got command sed "s/ü/-/g", but I don't know how to type ü in unix command line.
Please help me for this one.
Thanks in advance (7 Replies)