HP-UX

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

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
while read line
do
 echo "$line"
 echo "this line has ${#line} characters"
done < inputfilename

Thanks for your quick response.

I tried the script and it gives me the the information line wise like how many character are there in each line but the contents are not in readable format.
it gives me below output

] M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?M-^?
this line has 26 characters
]@
this line has 2 characters
^P

Actually, I am not sure about your requirement. Do you want a command to read ascii files on hpux?

If that's the case, you can do

# more <filename> - Read the file page by page.
# vi <filename> - Edit the file using vi editor (However, it shows the content)
# cat <filename> - Would print the content of a file.

I'm sorry if am talking something irrelevant to situation here since Jim has given a mini script. I wasnt sure, however, if you want to read the content of a file using a command the above should work.

-DB

dos2ux <filename>

Hi DustBunny

Thanks for your reply Yes I want to read file which is in ascii format and then I tried more, cat commands to read but it gives me o/p which is not understandable below is the o/p

^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^G^B^B^B^A^G^B^A^B^B^A^B^B^B^A^B
^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B
^A^B^A^B^G^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B
^B^G^B^A^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^A^B^F^A^B^B^B^B^A^A^A^B
^B^B^A^B^A^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^G^B^B^A^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B
^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^A^A^B^B^B
^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^A^A^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^T^B
^G^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^A^B^B^B^B^B^B


And the same response from dos2ux command.

I tried the strings command too it gave me the some o/p but not all it chop up the contents while displaying as it reduces the file size.

This is a case of "garbage-in....garbage-out". Your file really is mostly gibberish. These commands are showing you what's there.