Thanks, nice solution, it works as expected. The problem is that this grepping is part of a large script file, so, is there anything I can do so as to detect if the term I want to search contains not very usual letters like the above?
And if yes, then is there any way with which I can replace the %C3s etc with \xC3s so as to search the term, without possibly altering the rest of the string?
Hi folks. None of the conventional methods are working for my dilemma:
I have a file in my root directory that has a name comprised of strange characters. When I do an ls, it just hangs at that file until I do a Cntrl-C.
rm ./filename
&
rm \filename
do not work. I am entering the... (4 Replies)
Dear All:
I Have a bunch of files which I'd like to process with a shell script. The problem is that the files have strange characters in their headers, like
�g�8@L-000-MSG2__-ABCD________-FIRA_____-000001___-200806181330-__
��e�
Data from BLABLABLA, Instrument: BLABLA, Date:... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm new to UNIX and new to this forum, so forgive my lack of knowledge. I'm new with editing in vi so I FTP scripts to a Windows machine and edit the script in notepad (when I need to do something quickly). Sometimes when I FTP the script back to the UNIX box, strange characters... (4 Replies)
hi guys,
I am generating a file from datastage (an etl tool).
Now the file is having some junk characters like ( Á,L´±,ñ and so on)..
I want to use the grep function to figure out all the junk characters and their location.
Can somebody help me out in finding it out.. if possible i... (1 Reply)
I've written a script:
find -depth | awk ‘
{
if ( substr($1,length($0)-2,3) == “/1.” )
{ print $1 }
{ system(“awk -f test1.awk “ $1 ) }
}
‘
The idea is that it trundles through a large directory structure looking for files which are named '1.' and then... (3 Replies)
I have two files
file1.txt
angie
mary
susan
file2.txt
angie blond
mary brunnet
susan red
christine blackI want to get this output
angie blond
mary brunnet
susan redI write
grep --file=file1.txt file2.txtand i get no results
i also wrote
cat file1.txt|while read line... (19 Replies)
Is there any command or shell script to grep any special character from a file ? I have a huge file containing millions of user names; the requirement is to find names containing special characters.
#!/bin/bash
for i in `cat username.txt`
do
#COMMAND to grep special character
done
... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have an x86 server with an ILOM connection that produces strange characters when I perform a start /SP/console, see below:
Oracle(R) Integrated Lights Out Manager
Version 3.0.16.10.a r68533
Copyright (c) 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
-> start... (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
After compiling a .f90 code and executing it, i get strange characters in the output file like :
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
Are these windows characters? how can i get rid of this?
Much appreciated.
Paul (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Paul Moghadam
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syslogout
SYSLOGOUT(8) System Manager's Manual SYSLOGOUT(8)NAME
syslogout - modular centralized shell logout mechanism
DESCRIPTION
syslogout is a generic approach to enable centralized shell logout actions for all users of a given system in a modular and centralized way
mostly aimed at avoiding work for lazy sysadmins. It has only been tested to work with the bash shell.
It basically consists of the small /etc/syslogout shell script which invokes other small shell scripts having a .bash suffix which are con-
tained in the /etc/syslogout.d/ directory. The system administrator can drop in any script he wants without any naming convention other
than that the scripts need to have a .bash suffix to enable automagic sourcing by the /etc/syslogout script.
For shell sessions, the contents of /etc/syslogout.d/" will be sourced by every user at logout if the following lines are present in his
$HOME/.bash_logout:
if [ -f /etc/syslogout ]; then
. /etc/syslogout
fi
If used for X sessions it is advisable to include the former statement into the Xreset script of the X display manager instead to prevent
that closing of an terminal emulator window yields unexpected results in your running X session if your X11 terminal emulator is using a
login shell. Be sure then to run it under the user-id of the X session's user. See the example files in /usr/share/doc/syslogout/ for
illustration.
Users not wanting /etc/syslogout to be sourced for their environment can easily disable it's automatic mechanism. It can be disabled by
simply creating an empty file called $HOME/.nosyslogout in the user's home directory using e.g. the touch(1) command.
Any single configuration file in /etc/syslogout.d/ can simply be overridden by any user by creating a private $HOME/.syslogout.d/ directory
which may contain a user's own version of any configuration file to be sourced instead of the system default. It's names have just to
match exactly the system's default /etc/syslogout.d/ configuration files. Empty versions of these files contained in the $HOME/.syslo-
gout.d/ directory automatically disable sourcing of the system wide version.
Naturally, users can add and include their own private scripts to be automagically executed by /etc/syslogout at logout time.
OPTIONS
There are no options other than those dictated by shell conventions. Anything is defined within the configuration scripts themselves.
SEE ALSO
The README files and configuration examples contained in /usr/share/doc/syslogout/ and the manual page for bash(1), xdm(1x),
xdm.options(5), and wdm(1x). Recommended further reading is everything related with shell programming.
If you need a similar mechanism for executing code at login time check out the related package sysprofile(8) which is a very close compan-
ion to syslogout.
BUGS
syslogout in its current form is mainly restricted to bash(1) syntax. In fact it is actually a rather embarrassing quick and dirty hack
than anything else - but it works. It serves the practical need to enable a centralized bash configuration until something better
becomes available. Your constructive criticism in making this into something better" is very welcome. Before i forget to mention it: we
take patches... ;-)
AUTHOR
syslogout was developed by Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org> specifically for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Feel free to port it to and use
it anywhere else under the conditions of either the GNU public license or the BSD license or both. Better yet, please help to make it into
something more worthwhile than it currently is.
SYSLOGOUT(8)