Naming file with special characters ? Post: 302935481

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

search special characters in a file

Hello I am new to shell scripting and can anyone tell me how to check if there are any special characters in a file. Can i use grep ? thanks susie

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to see special characters in a file using vi

Hi, I have a file which has special characters. I can't see them when I "vi" the file. But I am sure there are some special un seen characters. How can I see them? Please help. Thx

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Replace Special characters in a file

Hi, I have a data like this in a file, 402003279034002000100147626030003300010000000000002000029000000 �r^M^\M�W^H I need to replace those special char to some other char like # or $ Is there any ways to do it... I tried commands tr,sed and many but it was not able to replace because...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to delete a file with special characters

I don't now exactly how I did it, but I created a file named " -C " cexdi:/home1 $ls -lt total 1801336 -rw------- 1 cexdi ced-group 922275840 23 mars 10:03 -C How do I delete this file ? cexdi:/home1 $rm -C rm: invalid option -- C Syntax : rm filename ... Doesn't work......

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Removing special characters in file

I have file special.txt with the following data. <header info> 123$ty5%98&0asd 1@356fgbv78 09*&^5jkns43( ...........some more rows. In my output file, I want to eliminate all the special characters in my file and I want all other data. need some help.

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

escaping special characters in file name...

dear, I would like to rename files in a dir to another format, so I write a bash shell script to handle it. But my problem now is how to handle files having special characters like spaces, (, ): "a b c (d).doc" It seems that I need to escape those characters before applying the "mv" command....

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Problem with Special characters in file

Hi, I am facing a below problem. Inorder to mak sure the below file is fixed width i am using the following command awk '{printf("%-375s\n", $0) } so as to add trailing spaces at the end for records of length less than 375. Input file > inp.txt 1�1234 1234 123�1 The output file is...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

File containing special characters

Hello All, I am facing challenges in order to transfer a file from windows to unix box,the file contains a special character '�' ,now when I am transferring the file from windows to unix that special character converted to something else like '�' ,another thing I have noticed that the hardware is...

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Substitute special Characters into a file

Hi experts :) I need to replace special characters into a file , in the followiing way : " --> "" ' --> '' _--> \_ I tried with the sed command but I'm getting and error ksh: $: not found. ksh: $: not found. sed: Function s/\/\/ cannot be parsed. Any idea ? Thanks , KOLAS...

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Rename File Name with Special Characters

I am trying to rename files with spaces and other characters and not able to be successful. FileNames: UPLOAD REFERENCE.xls UPLOAD MASS REFERENCE.XLS find /UPLOAD REFERENCE/ -depth -type f -name "* *" -exec rename " " "_" "{}" ";" The above one is successful to replace spaces...

LEARN ABOUT BSD

mkhosts

MKHOSTS(8)						      System Manager's Manual							MKHOSTS(8)

NAME

       mkhosts - generate hashed host table

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mkhosts [ -v ] hostfile

DESCRIPTION

       Mkhosts	is used to generated the hashed host database used by one version of the library routines gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname().	It
       is not used if host name translation is performed by named(8).  If the -v option is supplied, each host will be listed as it is added.  The
       file  hostfile  is  usually /etc/hosts, and in any case must be in the format of /etc/hosts (see hosts(5)).  Mkhosts will generate database
       files named hostfile.pag and hostfile.dir.  The new database is build in a set of temporary files and only replaces the	real  database	if
       the new one is built without errors.  Mkhosts will exit with a non-zero exit code if any errors are detected.

FILES

       hostfile.pag	   - real database filenames
       hostfile.dir
       hostfile.new.pag    - temporary database filenames
       hostfile.new.dir

SEE ALSO

       gethostbyname(3), gettable(8), hosts(5), htable(8), named(8)

4.3 Berkeley Distribution					   May 23, 1986 							MKHOSTS(8)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

search special characters in a file

Discussion started by: cramya80

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to see special characters in a file using vi

Discussion started by: jingi1234

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Replace Special characters in a file

Discussion started by: solai

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to delete a file with special characters

Discussion started by: yveslagace