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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. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I'm using KSH and am writing a small script that counts the lines of various files in several folders under one root folder.
Below is the script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
common_path_in="/interface_in/rsc"
file_out="/interface_in/rsc/record_count.csv"
tot_rec_count=-1
act_rec_count=-1... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jagari
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have the following file consisting of dates and sample measurements:
05��Oct��2010 1.31��
06��Oct��2010 1.32��
07��Oct��2010 1.31��
The hex characters are \xc2\xa0 in sequence.
I have tried to remove the characters as follows:
sed -i '' -e 's/\xc2\xa0//g' file.dat
and as follows... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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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 there!
I'm new in this and probably is a quite simple task but I still cannot manage to do it:
I have to read some files line by line and then change the input format into another one, but the very first step is to replace the empty variables by error values. I mean, each line looks like:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: thoreman
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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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. Shell Programming and Scripting
I must remove hex characters 0A and 0D from several fields within an MS Access Table. Since I don't think it can be done in Access, I am trying here.
I am exporting a Table from Access (must be fixed length fields, I think, for my idea to work here) into a text format.
I then want to run a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: BAH
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