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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting octal values Post 302525736 by vino.paal on Friday 27th of May 2011 11:46:12 PM
Old 05-28-2011
Thanks

hi ..
i have tried to delete by giving the range in tr command but its not working. lik tr -d '/200'-'/377'.
error is telling characters limit is out of range.

i will try ur response n ll let u know . thank u so much

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please help me to give the range . because am not sure whether only this junk values will come .
 

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head - output the first part of files SYNOPSIS
head [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Print first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --bytes=SIZE print first SIZE bytes -n, --lines=NUMBER print first NUMBER lines instead of first 10 -q, --quiet, --silent never print headers giving file names -v, --verbose always print headers giving file names --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg. AUTHOR
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