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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting certain new lines from a file with shell Post 302497181 by vgersh99 on Wednesday 16th of February 2011 02:13:12 PM
Old 02-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by machalita
The new file its not being recognized as a text file, when i try to open it, i get the error: Gedit has not been able to detect the character coding, please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Sorry, don't know much about Gedit.
Can you 'cat' a file or use other editor?
 

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KATOOB(1)						      General Commands Manual							 KATOOB(1)

NAME
katoob - A Gtk2 light weight multilingual BiDi aware text editor. katoob is a text editor for X, You can use it to create and edit text files. Katoob support reading and saving text files in many encod- ings. As well as importing / exporting to HTML character reference. SYNOPSIS
katoob [options] files... DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the katoob commands. katoob is a light weight, multi lingual, BiDi aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main sup- port was for Arabic language but more languages are currently supported. OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --version Show version of program. -u, --usage Display brief usage message. - Read input from the standard input. files... Specifies the files to be opened. Multiple files are supported but they should be separated by spaces, Reading from pipes is also supported by using a dash "-". If no files specified, Katoob'll start with an empty document. FILES
$HOME/.katoob/ User's configuration files directory $HOME/.katoob/config Main configuration file $HOME/.katoob/recent Recent files list $PREFIX/share/katoob Global program directory EXAMPLES
Opening multiple files: katoob foo.txt bar.text zot Opening a file called foo and the output of cat: cat bar | katoob foo - Reading from a pipe: ls | katoob - Reading from multiple pipes: katoob - - Here katoob'll try to read from the standard input 2 times. To close the standard input you should press CTRL-D For each dash passed, Katoob'll reopen the standard input and read from it. BUGS
Something like cat foo | katoob - - "should read cat output and then wait for the user input and open each one in a separate document" is not supported. AUTHOR
katoob was written by Mohammed Sameer. BUGS
Bugs should be reported at http://bugzilla.arabeyes.org/ or the Arabeyes.org developer mailing list developer@arabeyes.org. June 22, 2003 KATOOB(1)
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