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# 8  
Old 10-30-2012
Try this:

Code:
awk -F\| '{gsub(/[^0-9]*$/,"",$4); print}' OFS=\| infile > outfile

# 9  
Old 10-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Try this:

Code:
awk -F\| '{gsub(/[^0-9]*$/,"",$4); print}' OFS=\| infile > outfile


No, this one doesn't work. the result is exactly same as input
ken002
# 10  
Old 10-30-2012
Umm you could try this:

Code:
sed -e "s/$(echo -e '\0205')//g" -e "s/\r//g" infile > outfile

This User Gave Thanks to Chubler_XL For This Post:
# 11  
Old 10-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Umm you could try this:

Code:
sed -e "s/$(echo -e '\0205')//g" -e "s/\r//g" infile > outfile


thank you very much. it works

---------- Post updated 10-31-12 at 10:02 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-30-12 at 10:54 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
Umm you could try this:

Code:
sed -e "s/$(echo -e '\0205')//g" -e "s/\r//g" infile > outfile

One more question, how can I find ascii characters of these two octal.


Thanks in advance
ken002
# 12  
Old 10-31-2012
You did say your file came from a mainframe, but did not say which... It has its importance if the mainframe did not convert the file to ascii before transfer... (common...) e.g. a file comming from MVS would need a :
Code:
dd if = <infile> of = <outfile> conv= ascii

look at the man pages of dd ...
# 13  
Old 10-31-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
You did say your file came from a mainframe, but did not say which... It has its importance if the mainframe did not convert the file to ascii before transfer... (common...) e.g. a file comming from MVS would need a :
Code:
dd if = <infile> of = <outfile> conv= ascii

look at the man pages of dd ...
my server is Linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
thanks for your repliy.
when I run the code, I got following error:
Code:
dd: unrecognized operand `if'
Try `dd --help' for more information.

Thanks in advance
ken002
# 14  
Old 10-31-2012
sorry there are no spaces after if:
Code:
dd if=<infile> of=<outfile> conv=ascii

but that, you would have noticed if you had looked at the man pages of dd...
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