Removing a filename which has special characters passed from a pipe with xargs
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 file name could be something as follows
When I use the following command
I get the message that states that an end quote is missing as follows
I am assuming it is because of the single quote in the file name.
When I try the following command in the directory where the file is located.
I get the same results
How do I resolve this issue and make the above find command work?
Please advise.
Thx
Jerardfjay
Last edited by jerardfjay; 05-19-2009 at 08:19 AM..
Reason: More information
I have file special.txt with the following data.
<header info>
123$ty5%98&0asd
1@356fgbv78
09*&^5jkns43(
...........some more rows.
In my output file, I want to eliminate all the special characters in my file and I want all other data. need some help. (6 Replies)
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:
i have several thousand files from users and of course they use all kind of characters on filenames. I have things like:
My special report (1999 ) Lisa & Jack's work.doc
crazy.
How do I remove all this characters in the current dir and subdirs too?
Thanks. (3 Replies)
How to remove special chracters @ END OF EACH LINE in a file
file1.txt:
0003073413^M
0003073351^M
0003073379^M
0003282724^M
0003323334^M
0003217159^M
0003102760^M
0002228911^M
I used the below command but it is not working ?
perl -pi -e 's/^M\/g' file1.txt (6 Replies)
Hi all,
Am piping a list of files to "xargs rm -v".
The files may have spaces in their names.
Please advise how do i deal with it... :confused:
Thanks. (3 Replies)
I'm very new to awk and sed and I've been struggling with this for a while.
I'm trying to search a file for a string with special characters and this string is a command line argument to a simple script.
./myscript "searchpattern" file
#!/bin/sh
awk "/$1/" $2 > dupelistfilter.txt
sed... (6 Replies)
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)
Hi,
It's my first time here... anyways, I have a simple problem with these filenames. This is probably too easy for you guys:
ABC_20101.2A.2010_01
ABD_20103.2E.2010_04
ABE_20107.2R.2010_08
Expected Output:
ABC_20101
ABD_20103
ABE_20107
The only pattern available are the ff:
1) All... (9 Replies)
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original filename: 20000105_20000105_20100503.nc.asc
output filename:... (4 Replies)
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locale::codes::langvar
Locale::Codes::LangVar(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Locale::Codes::LangVar(3pm)NAME
Locale::Codes::LangVar - standard codes for language variation identification
SYNOPSIS
use Locale::Codes::LangVar;
$lvar = code2langvar('acm'); # $lvar gets 'Mesopotamian Arabic'
$code = langvar2code('Mesopotamian Arabic'); # $code gets 'acm'
@codes = all_langvar_codes();
@names = all_langvar_names();
DESCRIPTION
The "Locale::Codes::LangVar" module provides access to standard codes used for identifying language variations, such as those as defined in
the IANA language registry.
Most of the routines take an optional additional argument which specifies the code set to use. If not specified, the default IANA language
registry codes will be used.
SUPPORTED CODE SETS
There are several different code sets you can use for identifying language variations. A code set may be specified using either a name, or
a constant that is automatically exported by this module.
For example, the two are equivalent:
$lvar = code2langvar('en','alpha-2');
$lvar = code2langvar('en',LOCALE_CODE_ALPHA_2);
The codesets currently supported are:
alpha
This is the set of alphanumeric codes from the IANA language registry, such as 'arevela' for Eastern Armenian.
This code set is identified with the symbol "LOCALE_LANGVAR_ALPHA".
This is the default code set.
ROUTINES
code2langvar ( CODE [,CODESET] )
langvar2code ( NAME [,CODESET] )
langvar_code2code ( CODE ,CODESET ,CODESET2 )
all_langvar_codes ( [CODESET] )
all_langvar_names ( [CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::rename_langvar ( CODE ,NEW_NAME [,CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::add_langvar ( CODE ,NAME [,CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::delete_langvar ( CODE [,CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::add_langvar_alias ( NAME ,NEW_NAME )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::delete_langvar_alias ( NAME )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::rename_langvar_code ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::add_langvar_code_alias ( CODE ,NEW_CODE [,CODESET] )
Locale::Codes::LangVar::delete_langvar_code_alias ( CODE [,CODESET] )
These routines are all documented in the Locale::Codes::API man page.
SEE ALSO
Locale::Codes
The Locale-Codes distribution.
Locale::Codes::API
The list of functions supported by this module.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
The IANA language subtag registry.
AUTHOR
See Locale::Codes for full author history.
Currently maintained by Sullivan Beck (sbeck@cpan.org).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Sullivan Beck
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.16.2 2012-10-11 Locale::Codes::LangVar(3pm)