Hello,
I am getting very confused as to where should i quote special/metacharacters in shell.
Sometimes i write * directly and it works, othertimes i have to do "*".
Same is the case with other special characters like /,\,.,$,etc.
Can somebody give me link to somewhere where i can found... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file which has special characters. I can't see them when I "vi" the file. But I am sure there are some special un seen characters. How can I see them?
Please help.
Thx (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am reading a file (GC_JAR.log) which has entries like:
511725.629, 0.1122672 secs]
525268.975, 0.1240036 secs]
527181.835, 0.2068215 secs]
527914.287, 0.2884801 secs]
528457.134, 0.2548725 secs]
I want to replace all the entries of "secs]" with just "secs"
Thus, the output... (4 Replies)
When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:
\302\240
Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.
I am doing the following:
tr -d '\302\240'
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Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I have some text including Turkish characters and the 3rd party application that reads my file does not supporting this character set (at least, I have no control on it).
So, I used below conversion for maximum character support but still have problems with "İ" and "Ş". Application... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to remove '--X' from the whole file and using variables replace $oldvar with $newvar.
I have tried with double quotes but it doesn't seem to work. $newvar is set to /usr/bin/bash. Would appreciate some guidance.
newvar=$(which bash)
oldvar=/bin/bash
sed... (1 Reply)