I'm trying to match the end of line character in a shell script under bash. What I have done it got is a loop that reads each line of a file into a temp variable and then I get each letter of that variable and do some work on it. One think I want to do it check if the character I checking if the... (1 Reply)
How do i determine what the end of the line character is in a text file. for eg. is it \n or \f or \t etc..
Is there a unix command for this? (5 Replies)
Hi, I've got a file where in the middle of the record is a $ end of line character, visible only when I open the file in vi and do :set list. How to I get rid of the character in the middle and keep it at the end. The middle $ character always appears after SW, so that can be used to tag it.... (3 Replies)
hi all, i have this question: How to add new line character at the end of a file????
i need this because i am loading a file to sybase and i have problems with the last record
thanks for your help (5 Replies)
Hi,
i want to append a character '|' at end of each line of a file abc.txt.
for example if the file abc.txt conatins:
a|b|c
1|2|33
w|2|11
i want result file xyz.txt
a|b|c|
1|2|33|
w|2|11|
I know this is simple but sumhow i am not able to reach end of line.
its urgent, thanks for... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have a rather unusual problem, which i have not faced till now. I have a script which exports some paths to a text file. The script runs fine but when i check the output file i can see some junk characters ^M appended at end of lines and random places. I am not able to figure... (4 Replies)
I need to remove new line character from end of file.
Suppose here are content.
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
a|b|c|d|r
<new line>
that means file contains 4 lines but data is there in 3 lines.
so I want that only 3 lines should be there in file.
Please help (20 Replies)
I have a file and some records may contain double quotes at beginning and at end of line. So how do I strip them?
For Example, file is somethings like this
Field1;Field2;Field3
01;'Test';'Test Field3'
"01;'This is 2nd field';This is 3rd field' "
Desired Output is:
... (6 Replies)
Need to add end of line character to last record in a fixed width file.
When i take the record length of each line, for all the records it gives example like 200 except the last line as 199.
Due to this my other script fails.
Please help me on this. (4 Replies)
Hai,
I have got a small requirement in my script. and i am using bash shell. I need to add a dot (.) for some particular line in a file. Say for example,
$Cat rmfile
1 This is line1
2 This is line2
3 This is line3
O/p should be :
$Cat rmfile
1 This is line1
2 This is line2. #... (2 Replies)
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xattr
XATTR(1) General Commands Manual XATTR(1)NAME
xattr - sets or lists extended attributes on a file or directory
SYNOPSIS
xattr [ -lz ] filename [ filename ... ]
xattr -p [ -lz ] attr_name filename [ filename ... ]
xattr -w [ -z ] attr_name attr_value filename [ filename ... ]
xattr -d attr_name filename [ filename ... ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the xattr command.
The first form lists the names of all xattrs on the given file(s).
The second form (-p) prints the value of the xattr attr_name.
The third form (-w) sets the value of the xattr attr_name to attr_value.
The fourth form (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-h Show summary of options.
-l Print long format (attr_name: attr_value) when listing xattrs.
-z Compress or decompress (if compressed) attribute value in zip format).
SEE ALSO
The Python module "xattr"
AUTHOR
xattr was written by Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>.
This manual page was written by Federico Ceratto, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
May 8, 2010 XATTR(1)