1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I try to test the carriage return in a variable. $ LENGTH=`expr $VARIABLE : ".*"` will return the length of the variable. But this doesn't work if $VARIABLE has zero length. Any help will be well appreciated. Thanks in advance. Giovanni (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have observed with print & echo, they produce carriage return <CR> or newline, after they display string next to them. Is there anyway to avoide these <CR> after the intended string is displayed? (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi can anyone please tell me the difference between carriage return, linefeed and newline ? (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi ALL, bash-3.00$ echo $BASH_VERSION 3.00.16(1)-release I'm stumped on a bug. Im extracting a checksum value at the end of a file and storing it in a variable, the problem is that it is also somehow storing the carriage return in the string as show below: The variables below both... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, need your help in replacing carriage return in a record. Input: col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10 1|aa|bb|cc|dd|eee eee|ff|ggggg|hh hhh|iii 2|zz|yy|xx|ww|vv|uu|tt|ss|rr Output: col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10... (12 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey folks, I've been working on this for some time. Seems simple, but I'm stumped. I need the following data format: New_York:Commercial Geology Geophysics Petrophysics Production_Engineering Reservoir_Engineering Pasadena:Commercial ... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I've a flat file in the following format: AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001\nEG\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001\nHI\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003 And I want to substitute \n with the carriage return. Any help is appreciated! Regards, - Seth (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

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)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to remove the carriage return comes inbetween the record. Need to have CR only at the end. I used the below command. tr -d '\n' < filewithcarriagereturns > filewithoutcarriagereturns But its removing all the CR and giving one line output. Input File: 12345 abcdegh... (11 Replies)