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We preferred awk gsub because we had to capture count of replacements in file. sed and tr were not helping in capturing counts.
Below is actual script with some changes.

# remove...

I have created Shell script with below awk code for replacing special characters from input file.



Source file has 6 mn records. This script was able to handle 2 mn records in 1 hr. This is...

I am getting output like this , no warning/error. Output file is created , but with origional record only , no replacement.



Plz try to figure out exact error....

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This can be very helpful to me.

But its not workng in ksh script i put. I removed those 2 '.'s from above code.




Any changes required?

If this works , how can i print values. I had tried this option already but i couldn't print value. I tried like

count=gsub("[^[:alnum:][unct:][:blank:]]","?",$0)
then print $count
print...

Thanx for your quick reply.

That worked.

Can i catch it in a variable ? That would be easier for me.

Hi ,

I am working on a script to replace special characters in ASCII file with '?'.

We need to get count of replaced characters from file. I am new to Awk and i read,

# The gsub...

Hi ,
I m beginner for Unix and i want to use FIFO in my 2 Scripts . I want 1 script to read data from FIFO and other will write into FIFO.

Despite reading so many articles/posts i am still...