Or remove the extra characters with "tr" as you read the file.
As I'm sure you realise, the spurious carriage-return is Microsoft Text File format. How you transfer a file to a unix platform is important (e.g. use text mode ftp not binary mode ftp).
Last edited by methyl; 12-13-2011 at 01:52 PM..
Reason: tweak
Hello everybody
I have a very annoying problem on my Solaris (Unix in general) servers. When I open a shell and press the backspace button, it results in a ^H character being printed on screen. I can resolve it by typing stty erase <backspace>, but does anyone know how I can prevent the... (3 Replies)
I have to process a data file in Ab Initio. This data file is pipe delimited. BUt the file may have a Disclaimer line at the end. So before picking it for processing, I need to check if this line is there I need to remove it. ANy suggestions.
Thanks
Shalu (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm able to trim down the log message to "192.168.1.0.", but can't get rid off the last period.
Can any one help me on the syntax to get rid of the last period?
Basically, I want "192.168.1.0" instead of "192.168.1.0."
Thanks, (4 Replies)
ok the assignment question:
That English paper you were writing on the works of Lewis Carroll is due in a few hours and you have forgeotten the name of the text file in which you has written a number of quotations to use in your paper. Luckily, you know that the file is somewhere in your... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Im selecting a large record from a table and putting it in a file in the unix box. The file has a hidden character "^[[D " present in it. Can any one help me in getting rid of the character
Thanks in advance, (4 Replies)
hi,
I want to get rid of ' from my variable value in ksh, and I also want to read the value on the right hand side of = into a variable
thanks (10 Replies)
Hello I am working aon script, that tells me how many users or on the system when i run it.
The script is
#!/bin/bash
w | cut -f 1 -d ' ' |sort -u | wc -l
When ran it shows 16 users including myself and a line of white space.
I was wondering what I need to add to remove my user... (2 Replies)
ex: I have list of files in a folder.
abc_def_geh_.txt
abc_.txt
abc_def_geh_12345_.txt
ab134c_d345345ef_444geh_12345_.txt
i need to rename all files to get rid of the _ before .txt
result should look like this:
abc_def_geh.txt
abc.txt
abc_def_geh_12345.txt... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am new to unix....pls help me with this.
I have a binary file generating output by passing arguments in bash.when i open the output file in VI i can see that ^m is included in between most of lines,as a result when i pass this file to my java application it dosent parse the data... (3 Replies)
Hi
We are doing the migration of DMX3 disks to DMX4 disks using migratepv. We are not using GPFS but we have gpfs disks present in the server. Can anyone advise how to get rid of GPFS in both the servers cbspsrdb01 and cbspsrdb02. I will do migratepv for the other disks present in the servers... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newtoaixos
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
col
col(1) General Commands Manual col(1)Name
col - filter reverse line feeds
Syntax
col [-options]
Description
The command reads the standard input and writes the standard output. It performs the line overlays implied by reverse line feeds (ESC-7 in
ASCII) and by forward and reverse half line feeds (ESC-9 and ESC-8, respectively). The command is particularly useful for filtering multi-
column output made with the command of and for filtering output resulting from the preprocessor.
Although accepts half line motions in its input, it does not normally output them. Instead, text that would appear between lines is moved
to the next lower full line boundary.
The control characters SO (ASCII code 017) and SI (ASCII code 016) are assumed to start and end text in an alternate character set. The
character set (primary or alternate) associated with each printing character read is remembered. On output, SO and SI characters are gen-
erated where necessary to maintain the correct treatment of each character.
The command normally converts white space to tabs to shorten printing time. If the -h option is given, this conversion is suppressed.
On input, the only control characters accepted are <space>, <backspace>, <tab>, <return>, <newline>, etc... The VT character is an alter-
nate form of full reverse linefeed, included for compatibility with earlier programs of this type. All other non-printing characters are
ignored.
Options-b Assumes that the output device does not have backspacing.
-f Suppresses moving half lines to the next full line.
-h Suppresses conversion of white space to tabs.
-p Forces through unchanged any unknown escape sequences that are found in its input. This option should be used with care.
-x Suppresses conversion of white space to tabs (same as -h).
Restrictions
Cannot back up more than 128 lines.
No more than 800 characters, including backspaces, on a line.
See Alsotbl(1), nroff(1)col(1)