the problem is while replacing the old string with new one with the help of SED i am unable to replace the special characters with new strings. how can i do that?
i dont want the user to be given the trouble to write '\' before every special characters like * , . , \ , $ , &.
sed... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have tonnes of .txt files that are written in French. I need to replace the French special characters, however, with English equivalents (e.g. é -> e and ç -> c).
I have tried this
---
#!/bin/bash
# Convert French characters to normal characters
# Treat each of the files
exec... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
1. replace \\ with \
2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to replace a string in shell but it is not working correctly.
@xcom.file@
needs to be replaced with
tb137
Plz help.Thx.
Please use and tags when posting code, data or logs etc. to preserve formatting and enhance readability, thanks. (4 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
I am writing a ksh script. I need to replace a set of characters in an xml file.
FROM="ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÛÚÜÝßàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö¿¶ø®";
TO="AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYSaaaaaaceeeeiiiionooooo N R"
I have used the code- sed 's/$FROM/$TO/g'<abc.xml
But its not working.
Can anyone tell me the code to do this? (3 Replies)
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Thank you for 4 looking this post.
We have a tab delimited file where we are facing problem in a lot of funny character. I have tried using awk but failed that is not working.
In the 5th field ID which is supposed to be a integer only of that file, we are getting corrupted data as below.
I... (12 Replies)
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a script or program available out there that uses a conversion table to replace special characters from a file?
I am trying to remove some special characters from a file but there are several unprintable/control characters that some I need to remove but some I... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Please find attached a file that has special characters on it. It is a copy and paste from a Micro$oft file.
I don't want to use strings as it remove all the 'indentations' / 'formatting' so I am replacing them with space instead.
I am using the sed command below
sed "s/$(printf... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date
WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)NAME
wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.
SYNOPSIS
# Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
# (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.
wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
--name mywiki
--user wiki
--pass wiki
--host 'db.example.com'
--port 1234
--date 2007-01-05
--time 11:23:21
DESCRIPTION
Takes three mandatory arguments:
type
The database type. Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.
name
The database name.
date
The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD
five optional arguments:
time
The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight.
user
The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.
pass
The user's database password.
host
The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).
port
The port number that the database server is expecting connections to.
AUTHOR
Nick Burch
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch. All Rights Reserved.
This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Wiki::Toolkit
perl v5.14.2 2011-09-25 WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)
03-02-2015
