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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm writing a BBS telnet program. I'm having issues with it not displaying lower ASCII characters. For example, instead of displaying the "smiley face" character (Ctrl-B), it displays ^B. Is this because i'm using Ncurses? If so, is there any way around this?
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Discussion started by: ignatius
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following type of 2 column file:
motility -
role -
supplementation -
age b
ancestry b
purity b
recommendation b
serenity b
unease b
carving f
expansion f
I would like to print only certain sections of the file depending on the value of the second column.
For instance,... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: owwow14
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have many text files which contain some non-ASCII characters. I attach the screenshots of one of the files for people to have a look at. The issue is even after issuing the non-ASCII removal commands one of the characters does not go away. The character that goes away is the black one with a... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is my problem.
I have a list of phone numbers that I want to use only the last 4 digits as PINs for something I am working on. I have all the numbers in a file but now I want to be removed all items EXCEPT the last 4 digits.
I have seen sed commands and some grep commands but I am... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sucio
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am having a file(1234.txt) downloaded from windows server (in Ascii format).However when i ftp this file to Unix server and try to work with it..i am unable to do anything.When i try to open the file using vi editor the file opens in the following format ...
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Discussion started by: appu2176
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi gurus,
I have a file in unix with ascii values. I need to convert all the ascii values in the file to ascii characters. File contains nearly 20000 records with ascii values. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sandeeppvk
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Is there any UNIX utility/command/executable that will convert mutlibyte characters to standard single byte ASCII characters in a given file?
and
Is there any UNIX utility/command/executable that will recognize multibyte characters in a given file name?
The typical multibyte... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jerardfjay
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8. HP-UX
Hi,
Whats the command or how do you display the hexadecimal characters of an ascii file.
thanks
Bud (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: budrito
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
In the HP Unix that i'm using when i initialise a string as Stalled="'30¬G'"
Stalled=$Stalled" '30¬C'", it is taking the character ¬ as a comma. I need to grep for 30¬G 30¬C in a file and take its count. But since this character ¬ is not being understood, the count returns a zero.
The... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: roops
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10. Programming
i know it's out there, but I cannot remember how to check if a given ascii character string contains all digits or not ... any ideas?
ie...function("123") --> OK
function("NOT_A_NUMBER") --> returns error
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Discussion started by: jalburger
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