Any tip to replacing the special characters in a file
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
Note that the sed command above has been specific to what special characters to replace. Is there any way that we can specify a range of special characters to search and replace so we don't need to always find out what is the special character/s to replace and change the sed command to suit?
Hello
I am new to shell scripting and can anyone tell me how to check if there are any special characters in a file. Can i use grep ?
thanks
susie (2 Replies)
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 (6 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 all,
How can i rename some files and replace the special character in the name with todays date
ex: Name#file1.txt
Name#file2.txt
to be renamed as
Name.20091119.file1.txt
Name.20091119.file2.txt (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 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/$TO/g'<abc.xml
But its not working.
Can anyone tell me the code to do this? (3 Replies)
Hello All,
I am facing challenges in order to transfer a file from windows to unix box,the file contains a special character '×' ,now when I am transferring the file from windows to unix that special character converted to something else like 'Ã' ,another thing I have noticed that the hardware is... (1 Reply)
**Extremely sorry for the typos in heading
Old:CAST ('${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')
New :CAST(CAST('${G_DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'MM-DD-YYYY') as DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')
Need to change old format as new format
cat file1
CAST ('${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS... (1 Reply)
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)
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
phones
phones(4) File Formats phones(4)NAME
phones - remote host phone number database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/phones
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/phones contains the system-wide private phone numbers for the tip(1) program. /etc/phones is normally unreadable, and so may
contain privileged information. The format of /etc/phones is a series of lines of the form:
<system-name>[ ]*<phone-number>.
The system name is one of those defined in the remote(4) file and the phone number is constructed from [0123456789-=*%]. The `=' and `*'
characters are indicators to the auto call units to pause and wait for a second dial tone (when going through an exchange). The `=' is
required by the DF02-AC and the `*' is required by the BIZCOMP 1030.
Comment lines are lines containing a `#' sign in the first column of the line.
Only one phone number per line is permitted. However, if more than one line in the file contains the same system name tip(1) will attempt
to dial each one in turn, until it establishes a connection.
FILES
/etc/phones
SEE ALSO tip(1), remote(4)SunOS 5.10 14 Jan 1992 phones(4)