I have a requirement to remove all non-ascii characters from a fixed length file. I used the below command which is removing special characters but somehow the total record length is being truncated to one space less. If it is a multi-byte string then many characters at the end are being truncated.
Specifically what is the purpose of sed?
What is f?
Why is the 'cp f $phonefile' line needed when the script ‘goes live'?
Why might that two commands following sed be commented out at the present time ( i.e., during development)?
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Hi ,
I am using iconv command to convert a file in UTF-16 format to UTF-8 format. This command will work for few files but for some showing an error as bad input character.
But if i copy the contents of the file for which it is showing "bad input character" to a new file and perform the... (0 Replies)
Hi ,
I am using iconv command to convert a file in UTF-16 format to UTF-8 format. This command will work for few files but for some showing an error as bad input character.
But if i copy the contents of the file for which it is showing "bad input character" to a new file and perform the... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am not able to conver character set from UTF-8 to IBM-284 throwing an error "cannot open convertor" . Could you please help me how to get out of this error.
Below command is working fine
iconv -f ISO8859-15 -t UTF-8 fromfile.txt > tofile.txt
But the below command is... (2 Replies)
I need to convert a utf16 file to utf8. When i use the iconv command to do so it gives an error saying invalid function.
When I ran the iconv -l function it did not list the utf16 and utf8 as part of its internal table. Is there anyway I can add these encodings in the library? Is there any other... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I saw this. But I don't know why we need this?
ls mydir > foo.txt ## I know what this will do, it will take the results and write to the file called foo.txt
ls mydir > foo.txt 2>&1 ## Don't know why we need 2>&1
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Hi ,
i am new to unix i need a small clarification regarding this
sqlplus -s $USER_NAME/$PASSWD@$ORA_SID<< EOF >> SQL_CONN_LOG.log
In the above command what is the meaning of <<EOF>>
Thanks,
krishna. (2 Replies)
su - keibatch -c ""date ; /usr/local/kei/batch/apb/bin/JKEIKYK4140.sh -run "&$C$6&" WSUKE100201""
Not clear about : date ; /usr/local/kei/batch/apb/bin/JKEIKYK4140.sh -run "&$C$6&" WSUKE100201
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iconv
ICONV(1) BSD General Commands Manual ICONV(1)NAME
iconv -- codeset conversion utility
SYNOPSIS
iconv [-cs] -f from_name -t to_name [file ...]
iconv -f from_name [-cs] [-t to_name] [file ...]
iconv -t to_name [-cs] [-f from_name] [file ...]
iconv -l
DESCRIPTION
The iconv utility converts the codeset of file (or from standard input if no file is specified) from codeset from_name to codeset to_name and
outputs the converted text on standard output.
The following options are available:
-c Prevent output of any invalid characters. By default, iconv outputs an ``invalid character'' specified by the to_name codeset when it
encounts a character which is valid in the from_name codeset but does not have a corresponding character in the to_name codeset.
-f Specifies the source codeset name as from_name.
-l Lists available codeset names. Note that not all combinations of from_name and to_name are valid.
-s Silent. By default, iconv outputs the number of ``invalid characters'' to standard error if they exist. This option prevents this be-
haviour.
-t Specifies the destination codeset name as to_name.
EXIT STATUS
The iconv utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO mkcsmapper(1), mkesdb(1), iconv(3)STANDARDS
iconv conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
iconv first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, and made its appearance in FreeBSD 9.0.
BSD October 22, 2009 BSD