1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Need Help?? We receive Files From GM Motors and they written on a Sun Workstation using the Tar Command on a 4mm Dat Tape. We have an HP sure Store 24 Tape drive that will Execpt but when i do that it says that the media is bad. was wondering if there was any software that would read it in its... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers

Hey pllz, ive got a little problem, i want to convert a bmp of gif or jpg to an unix format (bm) anybody got any suggestions ? greets\EJ (1 Reply)

3. OS X (Apple)

I loaded OS X Panther on my Mac G4 and found that many files previously saved as Word or Word Perfect files were inadventently converted to Unix executable files. When I try to read these in Word, it cannot recognize or translate the file properly. Does anyone know how to translate these files? Is... (4 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to FTP a text file from a machine running LynxOS and I am having problems with the way windows "sees" the characters. For example this is how windows presents the text:     DevProcRcpClass The boxes are what I am having problems with. When viewing the same file on a... (3 Replies)

5. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

Is there a tool available to convert UNIX (BASH Shell) scripts to DOS scripts? I understand that DOS scripting is far inferior to unix scripting, and therfore this conversion may not be possible. Alternativley, perhaps I could convert my Unix scripts to C... then compile it for a windows... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello folks I am working on a project that requires me to write a script that operates on a bunch of text files. When I try less file.txt I see a bunch of ^M's everywhere. Some Googling tells me that this is because the files have a DOS fileformat and found the following fixes: sed 's/^M$//'... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i try to change the date-format from DD/MM/YYYY into MM/DD/YY. Input-Data: ... 31/12/2013,23:40,198.00,6.20,2,2,2,1,11580.0,222 31/12/2013,23:50,209.00,7.30,2,2,3,0,4380.0 01/01/2014,00:00,205.90,8.30,2,2,3,1,9360.0,223 ... Output-Data should be: ...... (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to convert this: F1-R1 F1-R2 F1-R3 into a flat file for bash?? Each record F2-R1 F2-R2 F2-R3 F3-R1 F3-R2 F3-R3 F4-R1 F4-R2 F4-R3is on one line with all fields for that record, put into an output file. The output file should look like this when converted: F1-R1,F2-R1,F3-R1,F4-R1... (6 Replies)

9. Homework & Coursework Questions

I uploaded a .dat file from sftp to my server and after using dos2unix to convert the file and check my work it says that the file was not transferred correctly and that the content is garbled. Please help (3 Replies)