I'm surprised that \w is working for you in AIX, but I'm glad that nezabudka's suggestion is working for you. (Even if \w is recognized as special in a BRE, I would not have expected it to treat the vertical bar symbol (|) as a regular character. Note that the BRE in the substitute command you were using (after inserting the missing slash character /) was:
would match any character that was not lowercase alphabetic, was not uppercase alphabetic, was not numeric, and was not a vertical bar character and change each of the matched characters to a <space>. So, I assumed you want the vertical bar character to be treated as a normal character. Is \w really treating the vertical bar character the way you want it to?)
Something that should work with any standard sed (assuming that your definition of a special character is anything that is not an alphanumeric character and is not a vertical bar symbol) would be:
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Reason: Fix typo: "s/[" was incorrectly written as "/s["
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We have a unix file that contains special characters (ie. Ñ, °, É, ¿ , £ , ø ). When I try to read this file I get a codepage error and the characters are replaced by the # symbol. How do I keep the special characters from being read?
Thanks.
Ryan (3 Replies)
I don't now exactly how I did it, but I created a file named " -C "
cexdi:/home1 $ls -lt
total 1801336
-rw------- 1 cexdi ced-group 922275840 23 mars 10:03 -C
How do I delete this file ?
cexdi:/home1 $rm -C
rm: invalid option -- C
Syntax : rm filename ...
Doesn't work...... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I have the following lines
<b>A gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
<b>B gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
<b>J gtwrhwrthwr text hghthwrhtwrtw </b><font color='#06C'>; text text (text)
and I would like to... (5 Replies)
Hello Team,
Any one suggest how to delte the below special character from a file which is having one column 10 rows of same below content.
----------------------------------------
Kosten|bersicht gemd_ ' =Welche Kosten kvnnen... (2 Replies)
I have a file that has the name in one of the lines as MARíA MENDOZA in Windows. When this gets FTPed over to UNIX it appears as MAR�A MENDOZA. Is there anyway to overcome this? Its causing a issue because the file is Postional and fields are getting pushed by 2 digits..
Any help would be... (4 Replies)
Need unix commands to delete records from one file if the same record present in another file...
just like join ... if the record present in both files.. delete from first file or delete the particular record and write the unmatched records to new file..
tried with grep and while... (6 Replies)
Hi,
How to add trailer record at the end of the flat file in the unix ksh shell scripting
can you please let me know the procedure
Regards
Srikanth (3 Replies)
Any time I do :
ls *.txt > mytext.txt
I get something like this in the output file:
^
Tue Jan 22 16:19:19 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
t1Fam_BrOv :~>alias | grep ls
alias l.='ls -d .* --color=tty'
alias lR='ls -R'
alias la='ls -Al'
alias lc='ls -ltcr'
alias ldd='ls -ltr |... (5 Replies)
My sed is not working on deleting the entire special characters and leaving what is necessary.grep connections_per a|sed -e 's/\<\!\-\-//g'
INPUT:
<!-- <connections_per_instance>1</connections_per_instance> -->
<method>HALF</method>
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Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha(3) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha(3)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
Tcl_UniCharIsAlnum, Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha, Tcl_UniCharIsControl, Tcl_UniCharIsDigit, Tcl_UniCharIsGraph, Tcl_UniCharIsLower,
Tcl_UniCharIsPrint, Tcl_UniCharIsPunct, Tcl_UniCharIsSpace, Tcl_UniCharIsUpper, Tcl_UniCharIsWordChar - routines for classification of
Tcl_UniChar characters
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
int
Tcl_UniCharIsAlnum(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsControl(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsDigit(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsGraph(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsLower(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsPrint(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsPunct(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsSpace(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsUpper(ch)
int
Tcl_UniCharIsWordChar(ch)
ARGUMENTS
int ch (in) The Tcl_UniChar to be examined.
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
All of the routines described examine Tcl_UniChars and return a boolean value. A non-zero return value means that the character does belong
to the character class associated with the called routine. The rest of this document just describes the character classes associated with
the various routines.
Note: A Tcl_UniChar is a Unicode character represented as an unsigned, fixed-size quantity.
CHARACTER CLASSES
Tcl_UniCharIsAlnum tests if the character is an alphanumeric Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha tests if the character is an alphabetic Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsControl tests if the character is a Unicode control character.
Tcl_UniCharIsDigit tests if the character is a numeric Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsGraph tests if the character is any Unicode print character except space.
Tcl_UniCharIsLower tests if the character is a lowercase Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsPrint tests if the character is a Unicode print character.
Tcl_UniCharIsPunct tests if the character is a Unicode punctuation character.
Tcl_UniCharIsSpace tests if the character is a whitespace Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsUpper tests if the character is an uppercase Unicode character.
Tcl_UniCharIsWordChar tests if the character is alphanumeric or a connector punctuation mark.
KEYWORDS
unicode, classification
Tcl 8.1 Tcl_UniCharIsAlpha(3)