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09-22-2017

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Originally Posted by CaptSutter

Hi,
I am editing a text file in VI and am occasionally seeing "characters" <82> and <84>. in my VIM they are marked in the same way the EOL character ^M is.
When running

:cat filename.txt

the characters seem to be read as a linefeed.
How do I search and replace these characters in VI.
What are they?
I do know that for the EOL character I press CTRL-V and "Enter" to get ^M.
Is there a list of these characters somewhere. <82> does not seem to be "T"

Hello CaptSutter,

Welcome to forums, I hope you will enjoy learning and sharing knowledge here. Coming to your question. You could see control M characters by doing cat -v Input_file and if you want to remove control M characters from Input_file then use following command too on same(if your objective is to only remove control M characters).

Code:

tr -d '\r' < Input_file > temp_file && mv temp_file Input_file

Let me know if you have any queries on same.

Thanks,
R. Singh

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gucharmap

gnome-character-map(1)						   User Commands					    gnome-character-map(1)

NAME

       gnome-character-map, gucharmap - insert special characters into a document

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-character-map [--font=string]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with
       standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents.

       Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the  characters  are  not
       available on a standard keyboard.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --font=string   Specify	the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when you start
		       Character Map.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Character Map

       example% gnome-character-map

       Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size

       example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20"

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-character-map    Executable for Character Map.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-character-map	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Character Map Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    20 Jan 2004 					    gnome-character-map(1)