How to enter special characters in a text file using vi? Post: 302955259

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. 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

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

remove special characters from text using PERL

Hi, I am stuck with a problem here. Suppose i have a variable which is assigned some string containing special charatcers. for eg: $a="abcdef^bbwk#kdbcd@"; I have to remove the special characters using Perl. The text is assigned to the variable implicitly. How to do it?

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed usage with special characters - text manipulation

I'm trying to use sed to replace string in text file but I've some problems with slash and new-line for example I have to replace this string: \> signal_rssi=" or this string where new-line is in the middle of the string: " /> I'm using this code for the first case but it doesn't...

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove special characters from text file

Hi All, i am trying to remove all special charecters().,/\~!@#%^$*&^_- and others from a tab delimited file. I am using the following code. while read LINE do echo $LINE | tr -d '=;:`"<>,./?!@#$%^&(){}'|tr -d "-"|tr -d "'" | tr -d "_" done < trial.txt > output.txt Problem ...

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Adding text to file on certain lines with(special characters)

I need to add "new lines" of text with special characters, to specific lines in the file. There are 3 modifications needed. Been testing 2 here without success. #!/usr/bin/perl use FileHandle; $file=FileHandle->new; $FILENAME="/opt/etc/usr/file.txt"; $file->open ("<$FILENAME") or die...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

find text enclosed between special characters

Hi, I'm trying to find all DISTINCT words having _mr in the line and ENCLOSED in '/'. For eg below is the text in a file.. /database/new_mr254/1 /database/rawdb/views/new_mr254/1 /database/project/rawdb/tables/new_mr232/1 /database/project/rawdb/views/new_mr253/1...

7. 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...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove Special Characters Within Text

Hi, I have a "|" delimited file that is exported from a database. There is one column in the file which has description/comments entered by some application user. It has "Control-M" character and "New Line" character in between the text. Hence, when i export the data, this record with the new...

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Search special characters in a file and replace with meaningful text messages like Hello

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 SUNOS

wnndtoa

wnndtoa(1)							   User Commands							wnndtoa(1)

NAME

       wnndtoa - Convert a binary dictionary to an EUC text dictionary

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/wnndtoa [-n] [-s] [-e | -E]  [-h filename] binary_dictionary_filename [ frequency_filename. ..]

DESCRIPTION

       wnndtoa	converts  the  specified binary dictionary binary_dictionary_filename to a text dictionary file (in Japanese EUC) and writes it to
       the standard output.

       If you specify one or more frequency files  (frequency_filename), the frequency information affects the text dictionary.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available.

       -n	Sorts entries by reading (in the order of long sound symbol, Hiragana (full-width characters),	and alphanumerics  (ASCII  charac-
		ters)).

       -s	Adds serial numbers to the entries.

       -e	Expands  entries  to  special  representation.	 For  example,	space	characters  and  tabs are expanded to octal representation
		(default).

       -E	Does not expand entries to special representation. For example, space  characters and tabs are not expanded to	octal  representa-
		tion

       -h filenaSpecifies the part of speech file name.  The default is /usr/lib/locale/ja/wnn/ja/hinsi.data .

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       |Availability		     |SUNWjwncu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       wnnatod(1), wnndictutil(1), wnn_hinsi.data(4)

SunOS 5.10							    2 Mar 1998								wnndtoa(1)

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to see special characters in a file using vi

Discussion started by: jingi1234

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

remove special characters from text using PERL

Discussion started by: agarwal

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed usage with special characters - text manipulation

Discussion started by: TheMrOrange

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Remove special characters from text file

Discussion started by: kkb