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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
Please find attached a file that has special characters on it. It is a copy and paste from a Micro$oft file.
I don't want to use strings as it remove all the 'indentations' / 'formatting' so I am replacing them with space instead.
I am using the sed command below
sed "s/$(printf... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a script or program available out there that uses a conversion table to replace special characters from a file?
I am trying to remove some special characters from a file but there are several unprintable/control characters that some I need to remove but some I... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
**Extremely sorry for the typos in heading
Old:CAST ('${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')
New :CAST(CAST('${G_DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS DATE FORMAT 'MM-DD-YYYY') as DATE FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD')
Need to change old format as new format
cat file1
CAST ('${DEFAULT_HIGH_DATE}' AS... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: 100bees
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a ksh script. I need to replace a set of characters in an xml file.
FROM="ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÛÚÜÝßàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö¿¶ø®";
TO="AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYSaaaaaaceeeeiiiionooooo N R"
I have used the code- sed 's/$FROM/$TO/g'<abc.xml
But its not working.
Can anyone tell me the code to do this? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: saga20
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a variable like
AVAIL="\
BACK:bkpstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:backtest|\
#AUTH:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
TEST:authstg:testdb3.iad.expertcity.com:authiapd|\
"
What I want to do here is that If a find # before any entry, remove the entire string... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: engineermayur
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6. Programming
Hello. How can i put all of the special characters on my keyboard into a string in c++ ?
I tried this but it doesn't work.
string characters("~`!@#$%^&*()_-+=|\}]{
How can i accomplish this?
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a file with many lines with below format:
\abc\\1234
jkl\\567
def\\345
\pqr\\567
\xyz\\234
Here, i need to do 2 things.
1. replace \\ with \
2. remove starting \
so output to be as below: (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: prvnrk
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have tonnes of .txt files that are written in French. I need to replace the French special characters, however, with English equivalents (e.g. é -> e and ç -> c).
I have tried this
---
#!/bin/bash
# Convert French characters to normal characters
# Treat each of the files
exec... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: BlueberryPickle
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
I'm writing a script to add a string to an XML file, right after a specified string that only occurs once in the file. For testing purposes I created a file 'testfile' that looks like this:
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And this is the script as far as I've managed:
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Discussion started by: heliode
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
the problem is while replacing the old string with new one with the help of SED i am unable to replace the special characters with new strings. how can i do that?
i dont want the user to be given the trouble to write '\' before every special characters like * , . , \ , $ , &.
sed... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: imppayel
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