Shell Programming and Scripting

It works fine with the tr command. What have you tried , how did you execute the command.

$ tr -d '14' < test_file_1.txt > test_file_2.txt

tried as above...but after the command execution, there is no change between the files i am still seeing the ^L

you missed a slash, it is

Code:

tr -d '\14' <infile >outfile

Use in the script like this :
sed 's/ctrl v shift L//' filename

Kumaran,

That worked, the slash thing worked. Thanks a lot

mann,

The sed also worked, i was actually using shift 6 to get that cap, that was the problem.Thank you.

In the meantime i was digging around the query and found that the wild character is the FormFeed of Oracle as i have been using SET PAGESIZE 0, removing this has got me the file without the ^L.

Thanks a lot guys. this is my frist thread and it is a great experience learning this way.