1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to unload file from a database. Which contains few lines with the character below. Rest of the data was unloaded appropriately.  a) What does this below character means? b) How can i remove it, I already have sed '/^$/d' c) Will this effect the file by any means... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that produces an output containing '/.ssh'. I am trying to find a way of parsing only this data from a single line, without removing any other special characters contained within the output as a result of the parse. Any help would be appreciated (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have below line in a unix file, I want to delete one character after "Â". 20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap Â~V Hybrids The result should be : 20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap  Hybrids i dont want to use "~V" anywhere in the sed command or any other command, just remove... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Could you please help me in removal of newline chracter present in between the double quotes and replacing it with space. For example ... Every field is wrapped with double quotes with comma delimiter, so I need to travese from first double quote occerence to till second double... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'd like to remove (do a pattern or precise replacement - this I can handle in SED using Regex ) ---AFTER THE 1ST Occurrence ( i.e. on the 2nd occurrence - from the 2nd to fourth occurance ) of a specific string : type 1 -- After the 1st occurrence of 1 string1 till the 1st occurrence of... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I've got a string of text with a number in pence, e.g. 0.52p, I need to remove the 'p' so that it just reads 0.52 without of course removing all the other 'p' characters. Many thanks (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

When editing a file, vi displays a special character as ^L. Can you tell me the escaped character to be used in awk? And can that escaped character be used in a regexp in both sed and awk? (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, The command - id | awk '{print $1}' - returns the following: uid=9028(luke) What do I need to further that awk so that I only have "luke", I want to set this as a variable. Thanks in advance, Lukas. P.S: I've come up with: USER1=`id | awk F'(' '{print $2}' | awk -F')' '{print... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

can anyone share script for how to remove control m character (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, on ksh What does the following do? grep -v "toolbox" $home_oracle/.profile >$home_oracle/.profile.$$ Thanks. Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules! (3 Replies)