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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an application which I am integrating with that accepts the password via a CLI. I am running in to issues with passwords that contain special characters. I tried to escape them all, but I ran in to an issue where I cannot escape the characters
'
]
My attempt is as follows:
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2. Homework & Coursework Questions
I am learning from the class how to protect the special characters and the script that I wrote here does not work when I am trying to pick up a single quote. It would complaint about parentheses problem. Please, someone could enlighten me.
Thanks in advance,
Scopiop
Input file
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I'm trying to replace "]Facebook" from the text
but
sed 's/]Facebook/Johan/g'
is not working
could you please help me with that? (6 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm attempting a little hack to get grep to highlight (change foreground color to red) a found string. Assuming a target file "test" consisting of the word "albert":
My executable "algrep" consists of this:
grep $1 $2 | sed "s/$1/\\\033
And when run:
algrep al test
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello all
I am writing a perl code and i wish to remove the special characters for text.
I wish to remove all extended ascii characters. If the list of special characters is huge, how can i do this using substitute command
s/specialcharacters/null/g
I really want to code like... (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:
\302\240
Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.
I am doing the following:
tr -d '\302\240'
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching:
\begin{work}
I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI. The problem is I can't get substitute to recognize the character '\'!
How do I do it?
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have one file which is named ^? ( the DEL character )
I'd like to know how to rename or copy the file by using its i-node number
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