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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I want to remove from a file the trailing null characters (0x00) and stop doing so when a different byte is found (which should not be deleted), and either put the result to the same file or a different one.
Any ideas? (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tribe
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Ok,
I'm stuck here with a plan to get what I need done completed.
I want to use perl to produce a document. lets say the document will be a pdf document.
Now, is there a way for me to put a tiny little code in that pdf document that can make the pdf file null itself if run on a non-unix... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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3. Red Hat
I am trying to count the number of columns in a delimited flat file. The record is tab delimited. When I use the command wc -w, I am getting unexpected results when the record contains a NULL value. I believe it is because there is a "word" missing.
The below example will return 4 words... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nmalencia
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have a file which contains data in fixed length. each row contains data of 10 characters fixed length. The data in the file appears like 4567782882
some times i may recieve dat less than fixed length of 10. in such a case i find nulls appended at the trailing spaces when i do a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: meeragiri
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I try to sort a file where some records contain nulls i.e. hex 00 the sort truncates the record when it reaches the null and writes message:
"sort: warning: missing NEWLINE added at end of input file myfile"
I'm assuming from this that the sort sees the null as a special character and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ArthurWaik
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a table with 10 columns. Some columns(2nd,4th,5th,7th,8th and 10th) are Not Null columns. I'll get a tab-delimited file and want to check col by col and generate seperate error code for each col eg:102 if 2nd col value is NULL and 104 if 4th col value is NULL so on... I am a... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mandab
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to replace nulls with spaces in every record of a '|' delimited file. I used this command -
cat input.dat | sed 's/||/| |/g' > output
But if a space appears twice '| | |' , then only the first null is getting replaced with a space. The second one remains as a null. I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: novice1324
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8. Programming
I'm relatively new to Pro*C programming. In the following example:
char name; EXEC SQL SELECT 'John Doe' INTO :name FROM DUAL;
"John Doe" is in positions 0-7, blanks in 8-19, and a null in 20. I would really prefer the null to be in position 8 and I don't care what's after that. I wrote a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ebock
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I just had a filesystem / file corruption issue on my HSP's server due to disk capacity limits and fileswapping. I discovered that certain files got corrupted when fileswapping was not successful and they ended up with a string of control characters, or what I believe to be nulls, in them.
Does... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Dr. DOT
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