What does unreadable mean? There is no guarantee that ascii files are intelligible. If I use an editor to put these lines:
in a file, all that "cat" can do is display what I typed. Suppose that I call that file "UnderstandingImmanuelKant" and send it to you. You still will only see those three lines of garbage. That is simply all that is in the file.
And maybe you are wrong in thinking that the file is an ascii file? What makes you think that it is?
Anyway the "strings" command (not string) can pull ascii strings out of a binary file.
There is also a "od" command that can show the value of the bytes. And a "more" command that might be useful.
I'm writing a script that takes a filename as an argument, which determines the "file type" of the file. I want to know if there is any command I can use to determine if a file is ASCII type, thanks all for giving a help. (11 Replies)
I want to verify the file is Binary or ascii file and accordingly I want to switch the program with ret code
ie 0 or success and 1 for failure
Can any one help me is this a correct syntex...i am getting error
#!/bin/ksh
$file filename
if
echo "ascii fie Found"
else
echo " binary... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
I need to read the data inside one file who's format is ascii text. I got the file format when I use file command on the file.
file <filename>
filename ascii text
please help me on this.
Thanks (8 Replies)
Hi gurus,
I have a file in unix with ascii values. I need to convert all the ascii values in the file to ascii characters. File contains nearly 20000 records with ascii values. (10 Replies)
I have a file in below format(ISO ) and to be convert to readable (.txt/Ascii) format .send me the commands/code please
sample as follows
2043010101167157001190002010011120000000002144300000000000000000000 01022_ - %rE@
U...ug 47 56 d %rE@ 01022_ - $5
fy ... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
To give you all a little bit of background. We recently migrated from HP-UX to Redhat Linux and one of the command I used to run on HP-UX to convert an EBCDIC file to ASCII file isn't working on Linux. The code is as follow:
cat workout2.dat | dd cbs=250 conv=block conv=ascii... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
While transferring file from FTP software like Filezilla the files gets corrupted.
Is there any way I can check if the recently transferred file is in ASCII and not corrupted. I have tried using file -i filename command which does tell if the file character set is ASCII or binary... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have an ascii file in which few columns are having hex values which i need to convert into ascii. Kindly suggest me what command can be used in unix shell scripting?
Thanks in Advance (2 Replies)
Hi Team,
I am having 100 EBCDIC files (i.e. DAT extension) and need to convert them into ASCII File by unix shell script.
I tried with DD Command but its not providing output as expected.
Sample Text:
------------------
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Expected Output:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JSM
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gnome-text-editor
gedit(1) User Commands gedit(1)NAME
gnome-text-editor, gedit - Limited functionality text editor for the GNOME desktop.
SYNOPSIS
gnome-text-editor [--debug [-section]] [gnome-std-options] [--help] [--new-document] [--new-window] [--quit] [filename]
gedit [--debug [-section]] [gnome-std-options] [--help] [--new-document] [--new-window] [--quit] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The gnome-text-editor application is a text editor for the GNOME desktop. The application is also called gedit. You can use gedit as a
shorter command to start the application. The application enables you to edit multiple documents at the same time. Each document resides in
a specific tabbed section of the application window.
When you start the application from the command line, you can specify one or more filenames. When gedit starts, the application opens all
files that you list on the command line.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--debug [-section] Run gedit in debug mode. In debug mode all the functions that are being called dump the function names to the con-
sole. You can specify the following sections for debugging:
o window
o commands
o document
o file
o plugins
o prefs
o print
o search
o undo
o view
o recent
Run gedit --help for more information.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
--help Print the command line options.
--new-document Create a new top-level document or tabbed section in an existing instance of gedit.
--new-window Create a new top-level window in an existing instance of gedit.
--quit Quit an existing instance of gedit.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
The gedit application accepts pipes, so you can specify a pipe after another command, to load the output of the command into gedit. For
example:
example% ls -l | gedit
EXAMPLES
Example 1: To Edit an ASCII File Named document.txt
example% gedit document.txt
Example 2: To Add a New Tab That Contains an ASCII File Named book.txt
example% gedit --new-document book.txt
Example 3: To Add a New Top-Level Window That Contains an ASCII File Named testfile.txt
example% gedit --new-window testfile.txt
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-text-editor
The executable file for the gnome-text-editor application.
/usr/bin/gedit
A symbolic link to the gnome-text-editor executable file.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-text-editor |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| | |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gnome-std-options(5), libgtksourceview-1.0(3)
Online Help gedit manual.
NOTES
This man page was written by the following people: Paolo Maggi, Chema Celorio, James Willcox, Federico Mena Quintero.
Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004.
SunOS 5.10 31 Aug 2004 gedit(1)