If you want to remove lines ended by a ^M character:
In case you want to delete only the character itself, but not the line:
Notice that "^M" is ONE character, not two! (You will see this when you pass over it with the cursor in "vi".) If you enter caret-M, nothing will happen at all. To enter the "^M" character press CTRL-V, then press the "ENTER" key (or "CTRL-M", which is the same).
Hi All,
I am looking for a solution to capture any ASCII control character in a file
( where the ASCII control character is in decimal value from 0 to 31 and 127
( Hex value from 00 to 1F and 7F ) ) by returning any affected lines.
The intended good file should contain "ASCII printable... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using MKS tool kit to execute KSH on windows and samba to move files to unix from windows.
My script is appending header record for the data file.
I'm using
echo "$header" > $SambaFilename
cat $windowsfile >> $SambaFilename
But after execution of script ,The file in Unix... (2 Replies)
Hi Shell Scripting Experts,
I have a shell script running daily on a remote machine through ssh. To avoid the trouble of restarting the script when ssh disconnects, I use screen (a unix tool) and run the script within a screen session.
What this script does is to ask the user to input y or n... (2 Replies)
I need help removing the last character of every line if it is a certain character. For example I need to get rid of a % character if it is in the last position.
Input:
aaa%
%bbb
ccc
d%dd%
Output should be:
aaa
%bbb
ccc
d%dd
I tried this but it gets rid of all of the % characters.... (5 Replies)
in a file we are getting control character in a file , is there any way that they can be removed once we have the file
for eg.
BEGIN-PROCEDURE INITIALIZE
^M
LET #row_count = 0^M
^M
^M (2 Replies)
I have developed a small script to remove the Control M characters that get embedded when we move any file from Windows to Unix. For some reason, its not working in all scenarios. Some times I still see the ^M not being removed. Is there anything missing in the script:
cd ${inputDir}... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to remove control m character from a file.
Steps which i am doing in shell script are:
1) We are comparing the header of the file to the database table header
Here the file header has control-m characters. How do i remove it.
Please help. Below are the steps i am using,... (12 Replies)
Hi All,
In my output file i am getting control m character and also the line feeds at different places and with different combinations, the content of the file is supposed to be in a single line but if there is a line feed in between then from there onwards it's going into new line.
I tried... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bipin Kumar
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
makedbm
makedbm(1M) System Administration Commands makedbm(1M)NAME
makedbm - make a dbm file, or get a text file from a dbm file
SYNOPSIS
makedbm [-b] [-l] [-s] [-E] [-i yp_input_file] [-o yp_output_name] [-d yp_domain_name] [-m yp_master_name] [-S delimiter] [-D num-
ber_of_delimiters] infile outfile
makedbm [-u dbmfilename]
DESCRIPTION
The makedbm utility takes the infile and converts it to a pair of files in ndbm format (see ndbm(3C)), namely outfile.pag and outfile.dir.
Each line of the input file is converted to a single dbm record. All characters up to the first TAB or SPACE form the key, and the rest of
the line is the data. If a line ends with `' (backslash), the data for that record is continued on to the next line. makedbm does not
treat `#' (pound-sign) as a special character.
Because makedbm is mainly used in generating dbm files for the NIS name service, it generates a special entry with the key yp_last_modi-
fied, which is the date of infile (or the current time, if infile is `-'). The entries that have keys with the prefix yp_ are interpreted
by NIS server utilities.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-b Insert the YP_INTERDOMAIN into the output. This key causes ypserv(1M) to use DNS for host name and address
lookups for hosts not found in the maps.
-d yp_domain_name Create a special entry with the key yp_domain_name.
-D number_of delimiters Specify number_of_delimiters to skip before forming the key.
-E Delimiters are escaped.
-i yp_input_file Create a special entry with the key yp_input_file.
-l Lower case. Convert the keys of the given map to lower case, so that, for example, host name matches succeed inde-
pendent of upper or lower case distinctions.
-m yp_master_name Create a special entry with the key yp_master_name. If no master host name is specified, yp_master_name is set to
the local host name.
-o yp_output_name Create a special entry with the key yp_output_name.
-s Secure map. Accept connections from secure NIS networks only.
-S delimiter Specify the delimiter to use instead of the default delimiter for forming the key.
-u dbmfilename Undo a dbm file. Prints out the file in text format, one entry per line, with a single space separating keys from
values.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
infile Input file for makedbm. If infile is `-' (dash), the standard input is read.
outfile One of two output files in ndbm format: outfile.pag and outfile.dir.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ypserv(1M), ndbm(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Aug 1999 makedbm(1M)