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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ijustneeda
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2. Homework & Coursework Questions
I need to write an Unix script to report the number of SQL files in my home directory, ending with .sql . The script should, also, be checking whether there is a file with an underscore in its name. If that is the case, the underscore should be converted to a dash (‐); for example... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ronoz-4
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3. Red Hat
Hi all
I am relatively new to linux (specifically red hat). I have installed Fedora 13 on my machine and started playing with the terminal when i found a very strange behavior when typing a command that is not found:
the terminal does not prompt me back. In other words, i am logged as root (or... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: abohmeed
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi fellow experts,
I have a question for you. Data looks like:
00877,05/13/2010,PBO,P,0000708331,518
00877,05/13/2010,PBO,P,0000708331,519
...
...
00877,05/13/2010,PBO,P,0000708331,2103
00877,05/13/2010,PBO,P,0000708331,2104,etc,etc
Basically I have to replace 518,519,2103,2104,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Devski123
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
example data.log
526569346 66815531961 09
526569346 66815531961 09
526569346 66815531961 09
526569346 66815531961 09
526569346 66815531961 09
I want like this to
526569346|66815531961|09
526569346|66815531961|09... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ooilinlove
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a file which is delimeted with the character '. i need to replace this character with the same character and also a new line.
Can anyone please help me with the tr command for this.
Many thanks
Karan (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: karansachdeva
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all
I have a file that has sone spaces in start then / at last. i want to get rid of this. how to do?
eg.
11414/
49878/
27627/
I WANT THE FILE AS
11414
49878
27627
PLEASE HELP (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
i want to replace the characters between positions 2 to 30 in each line in a file
how to do it
suggestions welcome (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: trichyselva
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I have a script for replacing bad characters in filenames
for f in *; do mv $f `echo $f | tr '+' '_'`
done;
this replaces + for _
But I need to replace all bad characters ? / % + to _
Pls how can i do this in one script ? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: palmer18
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I have huge xml file. The file contains some comment tags . I have requirement to replace comment tag with another comment tag.
Say for example : file X has -- Part of the file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-2"?><translationResults jobDate="20070123 23:20:51"... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: purnakarthik
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