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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing blank/white spaces and special characters Post 302912956 by himanshu sood on Wednesday 13th of August 2014 01:56:37 AM
Old 08-13-2014
Removing blank/white spaces and special characters
Hello All ,

1. I am trying to do a task where I need to remove Blank spaces from my file , I am using
Code:
awk '{$1=$1}{print}' file>file1

Code:
Input :-
;05/12/1990                      ;31/03/2014                         ;
Output:-
;05/12/1990 ;31/03/2014 ;

This command is not removing all spaces from file . Still i can see a single space before each semicolon.

Could you help me on this .

2. My file also contains some special characters specially French characters.
Code:
derniÉres annÅes

When I try replacing this character using sed/awk , I am unable to replace them that is I am unable to print them on command prompt . When I copy paste these two words in my command special characters replace them with some other characters.

So until I print them in my command, I cannot replace them.

Any way to do this I need to replace that A stuff with small a and E stuff with small e.

Kindly help on this.

Thanks,
Himanshu Sood
Last edited by rbatte1; 08-14-2014 at 06:48 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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