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# 8  
Old 01-02-2012
i have not specified the mode explicitly....what is the default mode?
# 9  
Old 01-02-2012
After converting i.e. unix2dos, did you try ftp-ing the file to windows and opening it?

--ahamed
# 10  
Old 01-02-2012
yes ahamed...i have s-ftp-ed the file after converting it using unix2dos...but the files is in ASCII mode while opening in windows server....
# 11  
Old 01-06-2012
Hi,
Any pointers on how to spool files in unicode format using shell script?
# 12  
Old 01-06-2012
so assuming you want to spool the files from a SQL DB in unicode, (disclaimer:am no sql expert, found this on the interweb, so YMMV). Try this. Set this in your shell and try spooling the files. Also ensure the locale settings in your shell are set to en_US.UTF-8

Code:
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAS_AMERICA.AL32UTF8

Last edited by dude2cool; 01-06-2012 at 10:19 AM..
# 13  
Old 01-06-2012
Assuming you mean UTF-8 (not UTF-16) basic ASCII is the same as UTF-8. However if you have any special characters (like accented foreign characters) in your data they would be represented in two or more bytes in UTF-8.

A text file FTP will remove the high order bits from ASCII special characters. If you file contains special characters it will require conversion on the unix server followed by binary mode FTP.

My advice would be to get the database extract program to write the file in the correct format rather than mess about trying to fix it with Shell.

Some Linux servers store all text data in Unicode format. You don't mention what specific Operating System you have.
# 14  
Old 01-09-2012
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
We are using sftp to transfer the files, hence it will be binary mode transfer.
Below is the OS details on which this script runs.
Linux ip-10-49-29-179 2.6.18-194.0.0.0.3.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Mar 29 18:27:00 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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