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)
I have a file with millions of records...Before I experiment, I would like to know which one is faster.
Both the commands work absolutely fine on a smaller set of records.
Please advice.
sed 's/^M//g' ${INPUT_FILE} > tmp.txt
mv tmp.txt ${INPUT_FILE}
tr -d "\15" < ${INPUT_FILE} > ... (11 Replies)
Can anyone seem to know how to find out whether a UNIX text file has 'hidden' control characters?
Can I view them using 'vi' by some command line options?
If there are control characters in a text file which are invisible/hidden.. then how do I get rid of them?
Your intelletual answers are... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a .xml file in unix. We are passing this file through a xml parser.
But we are getting some control characters from input file and XML parser is failing for the control character in file.Now I am getting following error,
Error at byte 243206625 of file filename_$.xml:
Error... (1 Reply)
There are 10 files present which have Ctlr-M characters appended to each line of all files.
I have a unix script which processes the files in a loop.
And there is an inner loop which processes each line in the file concerned.
#inputFile is a variable which has the file name of the input... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am using Cygwin.I created a new file and type into it using cat > newfile. When I open this using vi editor, it contains loads of extra control characters.
Whats happening? (1 Reply)
Hi,
My files are showing some control characters in vi editor
^M
^@ and somtimes
^H
I removed ^M with %s/^M//g command
but how to represent ^@ and ^H
e.g. for ^M it is hold ctrl then v and m..
Please help..
I am very new to unix.. (7 Replies)
Hello,
How can I view control and special characters of a text file?. For example, space, tabs, new line chars etc.
Can I use hexdump for it?
Thanks (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
We receive some huge files on to Linux server. Source system use FTP mechanism to transfer these files on our server. Occasionally one record is getting corrupted while transfer, some control characters are injecting into the file. How to fix this issue ? please advice ?
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Discussion started by: srikanth38
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asa
ASA(1) BSD General Commands Manual ASA(1)NAME
asa -- interpret carriage-control characters.
SYNOPSIS
asa [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The asa utility reads files sequentially, mapping FORTRAN carriage-control characters to line-printer control sequences, and writes them to
the standard output.
The first character of each line is interpreted as a carriage-control character. The following characters are interpreted as follows:
<space> Output the rest of the line without change.
0 Output a <newline> character before printing the rest of the line.
1 Output a <formfeed> character before printing the rest of the line.
+ The trailing <newline> of the previous line is replaced by a <carriage-return> before printing the rest of the line.
Lines beginning with characters other than the above are treated as if they begin with <space>.
EXAMPLES
To view a file containing the output of a FORTRAN program:
asa file
To format the output of a FORTRAN program and redirect it to a line-printer.
a.out | asa | lpr
DIAGNOSTICS
The asa utility exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO f77(1)STANDARDS
The asa utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').
AUTHORS
J.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.
BSD September 23, 1993 BSD