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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh check for non printable characters in a string Post 302934827 by dips_ag on Wednesday 11th of February 2015 07:22:52 AM
Old 02-11-2015
Hi,

I'll be not able to convert it to hex file.

But in a simplest manner, can I check for only alphanumeric characters plus few punctuations which I know will get passed?

Code:
if [ "${TEXT#*[![:alnum:]][.,;:'"/\()-_+=~@&*]}" = "$TEXT" ];then echo 'no non-printables found';else echo 'non-printable found';fi

This is clearly not working. Can you please help me?
-dips
 

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ALTER TEXT SEARCH 
DICTIONARY(7) SQL Commands ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY(7) NAME
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY - change the definition of a text search dictionary SYNOPSIS
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name ( option [ = value ] [, ... ] ) ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name RENAME TO newname ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name OWNER TO newowner DESCRIPTION
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY changes the definition of a text search dictionary. You can change the dictionary's template-specific options, or change the dictionary's name or owner. You must be the owner of the dictionary to use ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY. PARAMETERS
name The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing text search dictionary. option The name of a template-specific option to be set for this dictionary. value The new value to use for a template-specific option. If the equal sign and value are omitted, then any previous setting for the option is removed from the dictionary, allowing the default to be used. newname The new name of the text search dictionary. newowner The new owner of the text search dictionary. Template-specific options can appear in any order. EXAMPLES
The following example command changes the stopword list for a Snowball-based dictionary. Other parameters remain unchanged. ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( StopWords = newrussian ); The following example command changes the language option to dutch, and removes the stopword option entirely. ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( language = dutch, StopWords ); The following example command ``updates'' the dictionary's definition without actually changing anything. ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( dummy ); (The reason this works is that the option removal code doesn't complain if there is no such option.) This trick is useful when changing configuration files for the dictionary: the ALTER will force existing database sessions to re-read the configuration files, which otherwise they would never do if they had read them earlier. COMPATIBILITY
There is no ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY statement in the SQL standard. SEE ALSO
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY [create_text_search_dictionary(7)], DROP TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY [drop_text_search_dictionary(7)] SQL - Language Statements 2010-05-14 ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY(7)
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