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)
Hi,
I'm trying to email from UNIX, a file which has Japanese characters in it (i,e. in the contents -- not the filename).
The file gets emailed, but the Japanese characters do not show up properly when I open the file on Windows in my Outlook mailbox.
I searched a lot of forums but still... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am working on HP-UX. I am new to shell scripting. I would like to have a shell script which will prefix:
1. "H|" before first row of my file and,
2. "T" for all other rows of the file.
For Example - File before running the script 20100430|4123451810|218.50|TC
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Hi,
I am unable to copy Kanji characters into a unix file. They look like special characters when pasted into the Unix file. My objective is to copy these characters into a unix file and be able to print it and see the Kanji characters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying this... (1 Reply)
Hi Experts,
When i am trying to read a csv file ,i could find some invisible character in it.
I tried to see those characters by following code
od -c filename
It is displaying 240 for those invisible character.
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Replace first 3 characters in a unix file (say replace "A&B" with "C&D") in all lines of the file. Need a sed or awk script to do this. Kindly help!
-Kumar (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
My requirement is to remove any invisible and special characters from the file like control M(carriage return) and alt numerics and it should not replace @#!$%
abc|xyz|acd¥£ó
adc|123| 12áí
Please help on this.
Thanks
Rakesh (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
My requirement is to remove any invisible and special characters from the file like control M(carriage return) and alt numerics and it should not replace @#!$%
abc|xyz|acd¥£ó
adc|123| 12áí
Please help on this.
Thanks
Rakesh (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rakeshp
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
DIAGNOSTICS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
Multibyte character delimiters cannot be specified with the -d option.
BSD September 20, 2001 BSD