09-27-2010
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I try to test the carriage return in a variable.
$ LENGTH=`expr $VARIABLE : ".*"` will return the length of the variable. But this doesn't work if $VARIABLE has zero length.
Any help will be well appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Giovanni (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gio123bg
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have observed with print & echo, they produce carriage return <CR> or newline, after they display string next to them.
Is there anyway to avoide these <CR> after the intended string is displayed? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: videsh77
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I have a script that outputs a file that contains the dates from the previous month, which is then used by our application to run processes on each date contained in the file. My problem is is that my script created a blank line at the bottom of the file which causes issues for our... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: bd_joy
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a situation where I need to remove the carriage return between the lines.
For.eg.
The input file:
1,ad,"adc
sdfd",edf
2,asd,"def
fde",asd
The output file should be
1,ad,adc sdfd,edf
2,asd,def fde,asd
Thanks
Shash (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: shash
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi can anyone please tell me the difference between carriage return, linefeed and newline ? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: streetfi8er
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
need your help in replacing carriage return in a record.
Input:
col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10
1|aa|bb|cc|dd|eee
eee|ff|ggggg|hh
hhh|iii
2|zz|yy|xx|ww|vv|uu|tt|ss|rr
Output:
col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: agathaeleanor
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey folks,
I've been working on this for some time. Seems simple, but I'm stumped.
I need the following data format:
New_York:Commercial
Geology
Geophysics
Petrophysics
Production_Engineering
Reservoir_Engineering
Pasadena:Commercial
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: leepet01
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
How do i usecarriage return in ksh.
I want to do an echo "bla bla" and another echo "bla bla" will appear and replace the first echo on screen.
I tried:
until ; do
echo "bla bla \r"
done
please advice.
Thanks. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LiorAmitai
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I've a flat file in the following format:
AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001\nEG\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001\nHI\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003
And I want to substitute \n with the carriage return. Any help is appreciated!
Regards,
- Seth (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: sethmj
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to remove the carriage return comes inbetween the record.
Need to have CR only at the end.
I used the below command.
tr -d '\n' < filewithcarriagereturns > filewithoutcarriagereturns
But its removing all the CR and giving one line output.
Input File:
12345
abcdegh... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: srvn_saru
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