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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove 3rd and onwards occurances of a character Post 302435714 by Shivdatta on Thursday 8th of July 2010 07:19:07 AM
Old 07-08-2010
Yes I am on solaris.
I tried your command,it does not give error but the o/p is different than what
i am expecting.It is removing all the occurances of "@".Seems it is not able to interpret "4" alongwith "g".

Code:
$/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/@/ /4g' test.dat
fdgfgddfg sfsdfdsf dfdfd  vfdfsdfd
sfsdfs sdfd gfhfgh  ddffg sdf
srfgtfsdfs sdfertrd eergfhfgh  ddffg sdf
wttrtrt sdfd sdfdf  sdfdfds



---------- Post updated at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:25 PM ----------

Yes I am on solaris.
I tried your command,it does not give error but the o/p is different than what
i am expecting.It is removing all the occurances of "@".Seems it is not able to interpret "4" alongwith "g".

Code:
$/usr/xpg4/bin/sed 's/@/ /4g' test.dat
fdgfgddfg sfsdfdsf dfdfd  vfdfsdfd
sfsdfs sdfd gfhfgh  ddffg sdf
srfgtfsdfs sdfertrd eergfhfgh  ddffg sdf
wttrtrt sdfd sdfdf  sdfdfds



---------- Post updated at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:29 PM ----------

The perl command works fine but when i try to create a perl file with contents
Code:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
perl \-pe "$c=0; s/(\t)/ ++$c<=23 ? $1 : ""/eg" "src.dat" > "dest.dat"

it gives me an error.

Do i need to change anything in the perl file
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-08-2010 at 08:21 AM.. Reason: corrected code tags
 

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ppmtosixel

ppmtosixel(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                ppmtosixel(1)

NAME

       ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format

SYNOPSIS

       ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as input.  Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output.  The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
       LJ250 color inkjet printer.

       If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled.  A printer control header and a color assignment table
       begin the SIX file.  Image data is written in a compressed format by default.  A printer control footer ends the image file.

OPTIONS

       -raw   If  specified,  each  pixel  will  be explicitly described in the image file.  If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
              pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands.  A raw file is often an order  of  magni-
              tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.

       -margin
              If  -margin  is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever).  If -margin is speci-
              fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.

PRINTING

       Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered.  Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.

BUGS

       Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion.  If the original PPM maxval was
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SEE ALSO

       ppm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.

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