I need to check ftp'd incoming files for characters that are not alphanumeric,<tab>, <cr>, or <lf> characters. Each file would have 10-20,000 line with up to 3,000 characters per line. Should I use awk, sed, or grep and what would the command look like to do such a search? Thanks much to anyone... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have special character control M in many of my files as below
ersNet-Telnet-3.03/Makefile.PL100644 21166 144 612 7113770214 135
77 0ustar jayusers## -*- Perl -*-^M
^M
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(WriteMakefile);^M
^M
WriteMakefile(NAME => "Net::Telnet",^M
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix and looking out for some help in reading a file contents and replacing the characters, the requirement is I having a folder and having nearly 300 txt files, all the file contents contains some words we need to iterate all each and every files and need to find and replace it... (1 Reply)
I have lines like:
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
I'd like to replace characters only in $3.
H -> Z
s -> W
e -> x
Resulting in something like (where $1, $2, and $4 are not changed):
Dog Cat ZouWx Mouse
Dog Cat ZouWx Mouse... (3 Replies)
Hi all-
I've got 2 files: One is the final results and one is a result set from a query.
In the final results files I have placeholder strings in there that need to be replaced by the corresponding strings from the query file.
So File#1 (FINAL RESULTS)
LINEID CLIENT ID REP ... (1 Reply)
I have 100 files, where i want to search a set of strings and make the replacement by other strings
In the first case I want to include a parameter in the name of a file
LOG_DCT = $ LOG_DIR/DCT_GERAL_"$DATAINI".log
replace to : LOG_DCT = $ LOG_DIR / DCT_GERAL_ $ 1_ "$ DATAINI". log
I did... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am looking for any script which can do the following.
have to read a pattern from fileA and copy it to fileB.
fileA:
...
...
Header
...
...
..p1
...
...
fileB:
....
....
Header (3 Replies)
We are getting extended Ascii characters in the input file and my requirement is to search and replace them with a space. I am using the following command
LANG=C sed -e 's// /g'
It is doing a good job, but in some cases it is replacing the extended characters with two spaces. So my input... (12 Replies)
Search special characters in a file and replace with meaningful text messages like Hello (2 Replies)
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)