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 file that has semicolons in it (;) is there a way to just remove these in the file. Example
name: Joe Smith; group: Group1;
name: Mary White; group: Group2; (2 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)
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,
in a file, i have records as below:
123|62|absnb|267629
123|267|28728|uiuip
123|567|26761|2676
i want to remove the non printable characters after the end of each record.
I guess there are certain charcters but not visible.
i don't know what character that is exactly.
I used... (2 Replies)
I have been given a shell script that I need to amend. To do the following
extract the filename from the flag file by removing the .flag extension.
# Local variables
# Find if the flag files exists
MASK=coda_mil2*.flag
# Are there any files?
bookmark="40"
fileFound=0
ls -1... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
Im having a bit of difficulty with this one and I suspect its because of the character I want to match against maybe causing me a problem, but i wanted to remove everything up to (but not including) the first instance of '{' in a string
so for example the string that I want to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hcclnoodles
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
toupper
conv(3C)conv(3C)NAME
toupper(), tolower(), _toupper(), _tolower(), toascii() - translate characters
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
and have as domain the range of getc(3S): the integers from -1 through 255. If the argument of represents a lower-case letter, the result
is the corresponding upper-case letter. If the argument of represents an upper-case letter, the result is the corresponding lower-case
letter. All other arguments in the domain are returned unchanged. Arguments outside the domain cause undefined results.
The macros and are identical to and respectively.
yields its argument with all bits that are not part of a standard 7-bit ASCII character cleared; it is intended for compatibility with
other systems.
WARNINGS
is supplied both as a library function and as a macro defined in the header. Normally, the macro version is used. To obtain the library
function, either use a to remove the macro definition or, if compiling in ANSI C mode, enclose the function name in parenthesis or take its
address. The following examples use the library function for
or
The following example use the library function for
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Locale
The category determines the translations to be done.
International Code Set Support
Single-byte character code sets are supported.
AUTHOR
was developed by IBM, OSF, and HP.
SEE ALSO ctype(3C), getc(3S), setlocale(3C), lang(5), thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE conv(3C)