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)
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)
Hi all,
Any help on how to do the following? :eek:
I have an infile as follows:
_thisishowyouwritehelloworld
_thisisalsohowyouwritehelloworld2
I want to delete the characters from "_" to "how" and be left with:
youwritehelloworld
youwritehelloworld2
I am able to do delete from a... (2 Replies)
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)
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)
Hi,
I want to removing ^M characters from a file and combine the line with the next line.
ex:
issue i have:
ABC^M^M
DEF
solution i need:
ABCDEF
I found that you by using the following command you can remove new line characters.
tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv
still... (10 Replies)
I have a file as follows
ATOM 5181 N AMET K 406 12.440 6.552 25.691 0.50 7.37 N
ATOM 5182 CA AMET K 406 13.685 5.798 25.578 0.50 5.87 C
ATOM 5183 C AMET K 406 14.045 5.179 26.909 0.50 5.07 C
ATOM 5184 O MET K... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I have pipe separated file which contains some data having comma(,) in it. I want to remove the comma(,) only from particular column without changing data in other columns.
Below is the sample data file, I want to remove the comma(,) only from 5th column.
$ cat file1
ABC | DEF, HIJ|... (6 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)