1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to use grep to find strings of certain lengths that all start with the same letter. Is this possible?:confused: (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I have a non-ascii character (Ŵ), which can be represented in UTF-8 encoding as equivalent hex value (\xC5B4). Is there a function in unix to convert this hex value back to display the charcter ? (10 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi this question applies to Solaris 8,9,10 and opensolaris as in my environment it applies to all of these Is there a limit on the size of the username (in /etc/passwd) or indeed does there come a point where, like the 8 character limitation of passwords, the system receives the input but... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there ! I need to treat files with variable line length, and process the tab-delimited words of each line. The tools I know are some basic bash scripting and sed ... I haven't got to python or perl yet. So my file looks like this obj1 0.01953 0.34576 0.04418 0.01249 obj2 0.78140... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Sorry if someone has answered something like this already, but I have a problem. I am not brilliant with "awk" but think it should be the command to use to get what I am after. I have 2 files: job-file (several hundred lines like): 1018003,LONG MU WAN,1113S 1018004,LONG MU... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a shell script running to load some data from a text file to database. Text file contains some non-ASCII characters like ü. How can i convert these characters to UTF-8 codes before loading to DB. (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Sometimes we recieve some excel files containing French/Japanese characters over the mail, and these files are manually transferred to the server by using SFTP (security is not a huge concern here). The data is changed to text format before transferring it using Notepad. Problem is: When saving... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, I have two very long files like: file1: two fields 1 123 1 125 1 234 2 123 2 234 2 300 2 312 3 10 3 215 4 56 ... (11 Replies)

9. Linux

Hi, I have tried to convert a UTF-8 file to windows UTF-16 format file as below from unix machine unix2dos < testing.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 > out.txt and i am getting some chinese characters as below which l opened the converted file on windows machine. LANG=en_US.UTF-8... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have three files of varying lengths and different number of columns. How can I paste all three with all columns aligned? File1 ---- 123 File2 ---- 234 345 678 File3 ---- 456 789 Output should look like: 123 234 456 345 789 (6 Replies)