Hi,
I'm not very familiar with unix shell. I want to replace the combination of two carriage returns and one newline with one carriage return and one newline. I think the best way to do this is to use sed. I tried something like this:
sed -e "s#\#\#g" file.txt
but it doesn't work.
Thanx... (2 Replies)
As the title suggests, i am having some trouble figuring out how to pass spaces and carriage returns to a 'here document' ie
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/install_script.sh <<SCRIPT
yes
no
<pass carriage retun here>
yes
no
<pass a space and then a carriage return here>
exit
SCRIPT
any... (0 Replies)
Is there any way to remove carriage retuns between the records?
We have input records separated by TABS and have carriage returns as below:
123 456 789 ABC "1952.00" 678 "abcdef
ghik
lmno"
Above we... (10 Replies)
I need to replace thousands of carriage returns/line breaks in a large xml file and with spaces. I hope to do so with a script, called, for example, "removeCRs." I would invoke this at the command line as
ml5003$ sed -f /Users/ml5003/removeCRs oldFile > newFile
The script, I presume, would... (4 Replies)
Hello, I have read a few threads on this subject and tried a few things out, but still come up short.
There was one good example, then the last reply was something to the effect of 'Use Sed' & 'Read a book'...
Well I read a bunch of online tutorials on sed, awk, tr, but still can't get the... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need help adding carriage returns at specific intervals (say 692 characters) to a text file that's one continous string. I'm working in AIX5.3. Any quick help is appreciated.
Thanks! (2 Replies)
I have a CSV with carriage returns in place of newlines. I am trying to use tr to remove them, but it isn't working.
Academic year,Term,Course name,Period,Last name,Nickname
2012-2013,First Semester,English 12,4th Period,Arnold,Adam
2012-2013,First Semester,English 12,4th Period,Adams,Jim... (1 Reply)
Hello Gurus,
I have a multiple pipe separated files which have records going over multiple Lines. End of line separator is \n and records going over multiple lines have <CR> as separator. below is example from one file.
1|ABC DEF|100|10
2|PQ
RS
T|200|20
3| UVWXYZ|300|30
4| GHIJKL|400|40... (7 Replies)
I'm on Linux version 2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64, using the Ksh shell.
I'm working with the input file:
John Daggett, 341 King Road, Plymouth MA
Alice Ford, 22 East Broadway, Richmond VA
Orville Thomas, 11345 Oak Bridge Road, Tulsa OK
Terry Kalkas, 402 Lans Road, Beaver Falls PA
Eric Adams,... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
mvgetstr
getstr(3cur)getstr(3cur)Name
getstr, mvgetstr, mvwgetstr, wgetstr - read string
Syntax
#include <cursesX.h>
int getstr(str)
char *str;
int wgetstr(win, str)
WINDOW *win;
char *str;
int mvgetstr(y, x, str)
int y, x;
char *str;
int mvwgetstr(win, y, x, str)
WINDOW *win;
int y, x;
char *str;
Description
The routine reads characters from the terminal associated with the default window and stores them in a buffer until a carriage return or
newline is received from The routine B is called by to read each character.
The routine reads characters from the terminal associated with the specified window. The characters are read from the current cursor posi-
tion until a newline or carriage return is received.
The routine reads characters from the terminal associated with the default window. The characters are read from the specified cursor posi-
tion until a newline or carriage return is received.
The routine reads characters from the terminal associated with the specified window. The characters are read from the specified cursor
position until a newline or carriage return is received.
The following information applies to all the routines.
The resulting string is placed in the area pointed to by the character pointer The user's erase and kill characters are interpreted. The
area used to hold the string is assumed to be large enough to handle it, as does not check for buffer overflow. If the area is not large
enough, the result will be unpredictable.
The routines and are macros.
Return Values
The and functions return OK on success and ERR on error.
See Alsogetch(3cur)getstr(3cur)