Hi,
I have many text files which contain some non-ASCII characters. I attach the screenshots of one of the files for people to have a look at. The issue is even after issuing the non-ASCII removal commands one of the characters does not go away. The character that goes away is the black one with a question mark in it whereas, the square character does not go. I also show how that square character looks when seen using the "more" command using konsole on Centos distribution.
The code which helps remove the black symbol with a question mark is this:
But the above code does not get rid of those square characters. I have also searched through this forum and also on the internet and found many other codes to non-ASCII removal. None of them get rid of this square like character from the file.
Hi.
I have files in my OS that has weird file names with not-conventional ascii characters.
I would like to run them but I can't refer them.
I know the ascii # of the problematic characters.
I can't change their name since it belongs to a 3rd party program... but I want to run it.
is there... (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a file that has semicolons in it (;) is there a way to just remove these in the file. Example
name: Joe Smith; group: Group1;
name: Mary White; group: Group2; (2 Replies)
Hi gurus,
I have a file in unix with ascii values. I need to convert all the ascii values in the file to ascii characters. File contains nearly 20000 records with ascii values. (10 Replies)
Hi,
I want to removing ^M characters from a file and combine the line with the next line.
ex:
issue i have:
ABC^M^M
DEF
solution i need:
ABCDEF
I found that you by using the following command you can remove new line characters.
tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv
still... (10 Replies)
I am having a file(1234.txt) downloaded from windows server (in Ascii format).However when i ftp this file to Unix server and try to work with it..i am unable to do anything.When i try to open the file using vi editor the file opens in the following format ...
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Hi,
Is there a way to identify the lines in a file having extended ascii characters and display the same?
For instance I have a file abc.txt having below data
aaa|bbb|111|This is first line
aaa|bbb|222|This is secõnd line
aaa|bbb|333|This is third line
aaa|bbb|444|This is foùrth line... (3 Replies)
I am trying to develop a script which will work on a source UTF-8 file and perform one or more of the following
It will accept the target encoding as an argument e.g. US-ASCII or ISO-8859-1, etc
1. It should replace all occurrences of characters outside target character set by " " (space) or... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
tr
TR(1) General Commands Manual TR(1)NAME
tr - translate characters
SYNOPSIS
tr [ -cds ] [ string1 [ string2 ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Tr copies the standard input to the standard output with substitution or deletion of selected characters. Input characters found in
string1 are mapped into the corresponding characters of string2. When string2 is short it is padded to the length of string1 by duplicat-
ing its last character. Any combination of the options -cds may be used: -c complements the set of characters in string1 with respect to
the universe of characters whose ASCII codes are 01 through 0377 octal; -d deletes all input characters in string1; -s squeezes all strings
of repeated output characters that are in string2 to single characters.
In either string the notation a-b means a range of characters from a to b in increasing ASCII order. The character `' followed by 1, 2 or
3 octal digits stands for the character whose ASCII code is given by those digits. A `' followed by any other character stands for that
character.
The following example creates a list of all the words in `file1' one per line in `file2', where a word is taken to be a maximal string of
alphabetics. The second string is quoted to protect `' from the Shell. 012 is the ASCII code for newline.
tr -cs A-Za-z '