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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert tick to new lines Post 302982660 by SkySmart on Saturday 1st of October 2016 12:18:02 PM
Old 10-01-2016
Convert tick to new lines

i can convert ticks to new lines using something like this:

Code:
tr '`' '\n' < filename
or
tr "\`" "\n" < filename

or vice versa

Code:
tr '\n' '`' < filename
or
tr "\n" "\`" < filename

however, this command seems to not work the same on every system. it works on ubuntu, and it works on redhat when run from the command line. but if run from a script, it gets rid of the '\n' and turns it to 'n', which then ends up replacing all letter "n's with '`'.

is there a different command i can use for this that will behave the same on every unix system? i've spent a couple of hours on this and nothing seems to work.

i just want to be able to translate all new lines to ticks and also be able to translate back to new lines in a reliable way.
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do rtl layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --encoding=ENCODING Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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