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Operating Systems HP-UX Replacing control characters in HPUX Post 302920788 by sembii on Sunday 12th of October 2014 11:46:10 PM
Old 10-13-2014
Replacing control characters in HPUX
Hello dears,

Please tell me how can I replace control characters with normal string. I have a file that contains normal string and ^A ^C control characters. I tried to use sed and awk without any luck.

Code:
sed 's/^A/foo/g' text > text1         //not worked
sed 's/\x01/foo/g' text > text1      //not worked
sed 's/\x001/foo/g' text > text1     //not worked
sed 's/\001/foo/g' text > text1       //not worked

Used grep to find ^A characters, but it's not finding. tr tool is working fine. But if I use tr it will completely remove all control characters from file. But I need to change control characters with normal string. How can I achieve this. Please help me

OS version - HPUX 11.31
Shell - /usr/bin/sh

Thanks
 

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