1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can anyone please give me the grep command to find all the lines in a file that exceed 80 columns Thanks, gubbala (8 Replies)

2. AIX

By more, vi, cat etc commands special characters (few control characters) are not identified. Is there any way to find out those? Thanks Sumit (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI All I need a shell script ehich removes all special characters from file and converts the file to UTF-* format Specail characters to be removed must be configurable. strIllegal = @"?/><,:;""'{|\\+=-)(*&^%$#@!~`"; Please help me in getting this script as my scripting skilla are... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am a little stuck using grep. I want to be able to find from a file all lines which have the sequence of characters t, followed by any character, followed by the characters ing. I have tried looking at the man pages for help, but did not understand it correctly (as it is not the most... (9 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hiiii shell script to find noof characters in a file name, when you run ls -l (using awk) I tried with this ls -l > temp awk -F"," '{print $1 " " expr length $9}' temp but it give some other value instead of file name length (error value like , 563,54,55,56....).How to prnint the... (10 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I plan to use sed in a script to replace a string. My problem is the last 6 characters of the word to be replaced can be different each time, plus it's not always in the same spot on the line so I can't use cut or nawk to get the field. So I am looking for a way to find a certain word in a file,... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have several xml files from which I want to find and return a particular string I want to locate the InId="00000008". Now that is inlcuded within a tag and ofcourse the number is different every time this is what I came up with given that after greping the line that contains the... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have flat file which has data like this glid¿as_liste¿025175456 How can I print these lines into new file? (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi....I have a xml file which is having lots of special characters which I need to find out and put the distinct list of those into a text file. The list of special characters is not specific, it can be anything at different point of time. Can anyone help me to find out the same and list out? ... (10 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need to find new line characters in a file and their location in the file and print the results. can someone pleas help. KM (4 Replies)