Hello there,
I need to remove carriage return characters (\n and \r) from any input file specified. This is what I am doing right now:
- dumping the file to octal format using the command 'od -c file_name
- removing and \s and \n characters using sed commands
What I need to do now is... (3 Replies)
I have a file with multiple records in it and want to create a single record by removing all the carriage returns, is there a sed command or another command that will easily allow this to happen.
current layout
813209A
813273C
812272B
expected result
813209A813273C812272B
previously I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not very familiar with unix shell. I want to replace the combination of two carriage returns and one newline with one carriage return and one newline. I think the best way to do this is to use sed. I tried something like this:
sed -e "s#\#\#g" file.txt
but it doesn't work.
Thanx... (2 Replies)
Hello I'm trying to write a shell script which can remove a carriage return and/or line feed from a file, so the resulting file all ends up on one line.
So, I begin with a file like this
text in file!<CR>
line two!<CR>
line three!<CR>
END!<CR>
And I want to end up with a file... (1 Reply)
hi there
I'm getting a string from a sqlplus query, and I need to compare it with another string
Problem here, is that the string i get from query brings a 'carriage return' with it, and comparing throws always false value.
i need to delete all carriage retun charactres in string.
how... (6 Replies)
Hi - I tried to remove ^M in a delimited file using "tr -d "\r" and "sed 's/^M//g'", but it does not work quite well. While the ^M is removed, the format of the record is still cut in half, like
a,b, c
c,d,e
The delimited file is generated using sh script by outputing a SQL query result to... (7 Replies)
I have a file that I have to place a carriage return at the end of each line for another program to process it. I also need to remove all spaces after the carriage return. I searched the forums and found this command, but it removes all spaces:
sed "s/*//g" ic527.txt > ic527.new
The... (9 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to remove the carriage return on the record which starts with ADD, MODIFY, or DELETE keyword as the first value in the record. If the records does not start with anyone of these keywords then combine the records with the previous record (line).
Input
File name xyz.txt... (6 Replies)
I would like to remove carriage returns/line feeds in a text file, but in a specific cadence:
Read first line (Header Line 1), remove cr/lf at the end (replace it with a space ideally);
Read the next line (Line of Text 2), leave the cr/lf intact;
Read the next line, remove the cr/lf;
Read... (14 Replies)
Hi.
I need to make multiple string replacements in a file but several of the strings have been broken up by a carriage return so that the first few characters are on one line and the remainder on the following line.
E.g like the word 'post' in the following:
Use descriptive thread... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Big_Jeffrey
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paste
paste(1) General Commands Manual paste(1)Name
paste - merge file data
Syntax
paste file1 file2...
paste -dlist file1 file2...
paste -s [-dlist] file1 file2...
Description
In the first two forms, concatenates corresponding lines of the given input files file1, file2, etc. It treats each file as a column or
columns of a table and pastes them together horizontally (parallel merging).
In the last form, the command combines subsequent lines of the input file (serial merging).
In all cases, lines are glued together with the tab character, or with characters from an optionally specified list. Output is to the
standard output, so it can be used as the start of a pipe, or as a filter, if - is used in place of a file name.
Options
- Used in place of any file name, to read a line from the standard input. (There is no prompting).
-dlist Replaces characters of all but last file with nontabs characters (default tab). One or more characters immediately following -d
replace the default tab as the line concatenation character. The list is used circularly, i. e. when exhausted, it is reused. In
parallel merging (i. e. no -s option), the lines from the last file are always terminated with a new-line character, not from the
list. The list may contain the special escape sequences:
(new-line), (tab), \ (backslash), and (empty string, not a null
character). Quoting may be necessary, if characters have special meaning to the shell (for example, to get one backslash, use
-d"\\" ).
Without this option, the new-line characters of each but the last file (or last line in case of the -s option) are replaced by a
tab character. This option allows replacing the tab character by one or more alternate characters (see below).
-s Merges subsequent lines rather than one from each input file. Use tab for concatenation, unless a list is specified with -d
option. Regardless of the list, the very last character of the file is forced to be a new-line.
Examples
ls | paste -d" " -
list directory in one column
ls | paste - - - -
list directory in four columns
paste -s -d"
" file
combine pairs of lines into lines
Diagnostics
line too long
Output lines are restricted to 511 characters.
too many files
Except for -s option, no more than 12 input files may be specified.
See Alsocut(1), grep(1), pr(1)paste(1)