Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Pound symbol is not displayed in Linux file
Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Pound symbol is not displayed in Linux file Post 302736035 by in2nix4life on Monday 26th of November 2012 04:03:59 PM
Old 11-26-2012
Not sure what OS, shell, etc., you're using, but this trick might work for you if you have a keyboard with a number pad (far right of the keyboard).

Code:
At the shell type:
var1="<press ALT+0187>" This will store the » symbol in var1
var2="<press ALT+0163>" This will store the £ symbol in var2

To test at the shell run the following after creating the variables:

echo "spend (»000's)" | sed -e "s|$var1|$var2|g"
spend (£000's)

To update the file run:

sed -i.BKUP -e "s|$var1|$var2|g" file

This will perform the replacement on the file and make a backup of the original (file.BKUP).

Hope this helps.
 

7 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

perl - file reading - last line not displayed

Hi, Here is something that am trying with perl #! /opt/third-party/bin/perl open(fh, "s") || die "unable to open the file <small>"; @ch = (); $i = 0; while( $content = <fh> ) { if( $i <= 5 ) { push(@ch, $content); $i++; } else { $i = 1; foreach(@ch) { (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: matrixmadhan
8 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

complete file name displayed instead of extension

I am running my script from "/abc/" this path and it has no ".csv files" but has a ".txt" files namely temp1.txt My script goes as below, wherein it is suppose to find files with *.txt extension and *.csv extension in another path namely "/abc/xyz/": #!/bin/ksh PATH1="/abc/xyz/" value="*.csv... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: wolverine999
7 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Output file not displayed in the proper format

Hi am using uuencode fro attaching one report which is nothing but sql query output. But when i receive the report through attachement and when it is opened the report is not displayed in proper format. Means if the sql query has 100 rows the mail attachment report displays the report in 2... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: weknowd
2 Replies

4. Solaris

/usr/lib/passwdutil.so.1: symbol __nsl_fgetspent_r: referenced symbol not found

deleteing post (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dshakey
0 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

In Outlook spooled file data is not getting displayed properly

I am fetching a database table in spool file and send that details as a email. The Spooled file content is properly being displayed in UNIX. See Example below : ID|FILENAME |ABCDEF_DT |PROCESSED_DT |STATUS... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravi_007
4 Replies

6. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Tee doesn't write all displayed data into text file

"Debain 9 - LXDE" I execute follow line in the bash terminal: /ts3/server/ts3server_startscript.sh start createinifile=1 | tee -a /ts3/server/key.txt The displayed output looks like follow: My key.txt file looks like follow: How can i save the whole displayed text in my file? Why does... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: int3g3r
5 Replies

7. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Colorful message is displayed in the terminal but not in the log file

Is there any way to print the colorful message in the terminal (which is the output of a simulation) to the log file with the same color. The colorful message at the terminal is obtained by the following codes: /////////////codes start here/////////////////////////////////////// ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: babunp114525
5 Replies

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

tdbtool

TDBTOOL(8)						    System Administration tools 						TDBTOOL(8)

NAME

       tdbtool - manipulate the contents TDB files

SYNOPSIS

       tdbtool

       tdbtool TDBFILE [COMMANDS...]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(1) suite.

       tdbtool a tool for displaying and altering the contents of Samba TDB (Trivial DataBase) files. Each of the commands listed below can be
       entered interactively or provided on the command line.

COMMANDS

       create TDBFILE
	   Create a new database named TDBFILE.

       open TDBFILE
	   Open an existing database named TDBFILE.

       erase
	   Erase the current database.

       dump
	   Dump the current database as strings.

       cdump
	   Dump the current database as connection records.

       keys
	   Dump the current database keys as strings.

       hexkeys
	   Dump the current database keys as hex values.

       info
	   Print summary information about the current database.

       insert KEY DATA
	   Insert a record into the current database.

       move KEY TDBFILE
	   Move a record from the current database into TDBFILE.

       store KEY DATA
	   Store (replace) a record in the current database.

       show KEY
	   Show a record by key.

       delete KEY
	   Delete a record by key.

       list
	   Print the current database hash table and free list.

       free
	   Print the current database and free list.

       ! COMMAND
	   Execute the given system command.

       first
	   Print the first record in the current database.

       next
	   Print the next record in the current database.

       check
	   Check the integrity of the current database.

       quit
	   Exit tdbtool.

CAVEATS

       The contents of the Samba TDB files are private to the implementation and should not be altered with tdbtool.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

Samba 3.6							    05/28/2012								TDBTOOL(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:04 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy