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)
hi, I have quite a bunch of files with annoyingly long filenames. I wanted to cut the range of characters from 9-18 and just retain the first 8 characters and the .extension. any suggestion how to do it. thanks much.
original filename: 20000105_20000105_20100503.nc.asc
output filename:... (4 Replies)
I have developed a small script to remove the Control M characters that get embedded when we move any file from Windows to Unix. For some reason, its not working in all scenarios. Some times I still see the ^M not being removed. Is there anything missing in the script:
cd ${inputDir}... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: vskr72
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
delete_directory
delete directory(1m) delete directory(1m)NAME
delete directory - Deletes a directory
SYNOPSIS
cdscp delete directory directory-name
ARGUMENTS
The full name of the directory.
DESCRIPTION
The delete directory command deletes a directory. The directory cannot contain any object entries, soft links, or child pointers. The
master replica must be the only remaining replica in the cell. Use the delete replica command if you need to remove read-only replicas.
Privilege Required
You must have delete permission to the directory and write permission to the clearinghouse that stores the master replica of the directory.
The server principal needs administer permission to the parent directory or delete permission to the child pointer that points to the
directory you intend to delete.
NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.
EXAMPLE
The following command deletes the directory /.:/eng from the namespace: cdscp> delete directory /.:/eng
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: create directory(1m), delete replica(1m), list directory(1m), set directory(1m), set directory to skulk(1m), show directory(1m)
delete directory(1m)