1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, When I do a man and save it into a file, I end up getting a lot of control characters. How can I remove them?? I tried this: /1,$ s/^H//g But I get an error saying "no previous regular expression". Can someone help me with this. Thanks, Aravind (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am having a file which contains records as follows: DETAIL_KEY~12344|ACTIVE_PASSIVE~Y|AVG_SIZE_OF_RESPONSE~123123131 DETAIL_KEY~12344|ACTIVE_PASSIVE~Y|AVG_SIZE_OF_RESPONSE~123123131 DETAIL_KEY~12344|ACTIVE_PASSIVE~Y|AVG_SIZE_OF_RESPONSE~123123131... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi i have a file with these strings: 123_abc_X1116990 how to get rid of 123_abc_ and keep only X1116990? I have columns of these: 123_abc_X1134640 123_dfg_X1100237 123_tyu_X1103112 123_tyui_X1116990 thx (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Here is my code. for file in *1.3.html ; do mv "$file" `echo $file | tr '.1.3' ''` ; done For some reason I am getting an error. mv: file.idlesince.1.3.html and file.idlesince.1.3.html are identical Could this be done a different way? (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear Members, We have a file which contains some special characters. I need to replace these special character by a new line character(\n). The Special character is \x85. I am not sure what this character means and how we can remove it. Any inputs are greatly appreciated. Thanks... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I assume removing whitespaces in the n first characters of a string would be an easy task for sed? If so, how? (7 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file with all kinds of ^M at the end of each line. How the heck can these be removed? I tried a global search and replace, but it doesn't seem to work. Thanks! (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

here's what im trying to do. i have a file containing lines similar to this: data.txt: 1hsRmRsbHRiSFZNTTA1dlEyMWFkbU5wUW5CSlIyeDFTVU5SYjJOSFRuWmpia0ZuWXpKV2FHTnRU 1lKUnpWMldrZFZaMG95V25oYQpSelEyWTBka2QyRklhSHBrUjA1b1kwUkJkd3BOVXpWM1lVaG5k... (5 Replies)