Please make it a habit to post your system's info in every single new thread, as you did thankworthily in your very first post in here: "Debian 9 64x - LXDE".
As for your problem: the bash builtin echo needs the -e option. man bash:
Quote:
If the -e option is given, interpretation of the following backslash-escaped characters is enabled.
Same holds true for the external /bin/echo comand on linux systems. It does not necessarily on other systems.
I'm trying to modify the /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard file to generate a header for all the print jobs that are sent, but there is no formfeed defined so the the job prints right after the header with no page break. What is the sequence I need in order to generate a formfeed? Or, do you have... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to execute the following command from a batch script, but no matter how many escape characters I put in it doesn't execute properly. It works fine from the command line with quotes around the -exec part.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/atria/bin/cleartool setview -exec... (0 Replies)
hey
i want to know the unix commands to replace all the character escape sequences with their "C" values in a string...
thanks in advance..!
Regards,
Sharanya (9 Replies)
Hi all
I have been trying to write a script to look for a set of specific escape characters in a file. On viewing the file via vi it shows this :
^ I understand this means no end of line.
I have tried a vary of grep parameters such as grep ^\^. filename grep --binary-file=binary without... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I want to know if escape charaters work on all the popular UNIX shells. More specifically I want to know if echo "\c" will work on most of the UNIX shells and are there any specific shells on which \c won't work.
Please help.
Thanks,
Vineet (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have added the script command to user profile so that to record the on-screen data.But when i i checked the O/P i could see lot of escape sequence is there way to remove it. (2 Replies)
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
Need help in escaping special characters in sed command.
Here is the the string which i am trying to find a replace with
From :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID={//MESSAGE_ID}
To :- REQUEST_TYPE=PIXEL&MSG_ID= X_EDELIVERY_MESSAGE_ID & BATCH_ID= X_EDELIVERY_BATCH_ID
Here is the sed command i am... (2 Replies)
i am executing script from A server which will execute the script in B server , as below.
ssh A 'ssh B echo 'select * from testing where name ='test''
i am getting the below output.
select * from testing where name=test
but i need the output where clause with quotes , tried with... (3 Replies)
I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters
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My attempt is as follows:
$... (2 Replies)