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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Search special characters in a file and replace with meaningful text messages like Hello (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
We are getting extended Ascii characters in the input file and my requirement is to search and replace them with a space. I am using the following command
LANG=C sed -e 's// /g'
It is doing a good job, but in some cases it is replacing the extended characters with two spaces. So my input... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: ysvsr1
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am looking for any script which can do the following.
have to read a pattern from fileA and copy it to fileB.
fileA:
...
...
Header
...
...
..p1
...
...
fileB:
....
....
Header (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Masters,
I have fixed length input file like FHEAD0000000001XXXX20090901 0000009000Y1000XXX2
THEAD000000000220090901 ITM0000109393813 430143504352N22SP 000000000000RN000000010000EA P0000000000000014390020090901
TTAIL0000000003000000
FTAIL00000000040000000002
Note... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bittoo
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have 100 files, where i want to search a set of strings and make the replacement by other strings
In the first case I want to include a parameter in the name of a file
LOG_DCT = $ LOG_DIR/DCT_GERAL_"$DATAINI".log
replace to : LOG_DCT = $ LOG_DIR / DCT_GERAL_ $ 1_ "$ DATAINI". log
I did... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RMSoares
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all-
I've got 2 files: One is the final results and one is a result set from a query.
In the final results files I have placeholder strings in there that need to be replaced by the corresponding strings from the query file.
So File#1 (FINAL RESULTS)
LINEID CLIENT ID REP ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Cailet
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have lines like:
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
Dog Cat House Mouse
I'd like to replace characters only in $3.
H -> Z
s -> W
e -> x
Resulting in something like (where $1, $2, and $4 are not changed):
Dog Cat ZouWx Mouse
Dog Cat ZouWx Mouse... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dcfargo
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new to unix and looking out for some help in reading a file contents and replacing the characters, the requirement is I having a folder and having nearly 300 txt files, all the file contents contains some words we need to iterate all each and every files and need to find and replace it... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: subrahmaniank
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have special character control M in many of my files as below
ersNet-Telnet-3.03/Makefile.PL100644 21166 144 612 7113770214 135
77 0ustar jayusers## -*- Perl -*-^M
^M
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(WriteMakefile);^M
^M
WriteMakefile(NAME => "Net::Telnet",^M
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mohammed
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to check ftp'd incoming files for characters that are not alphanumeric,<tab>, <cr>, or <lf> characters. Each file would have 10-20,000 line with up to 3,000 characters per line. Should I use awk, sed, or grep and what would the command look like to do such a search? Thanks much to anyone... (2 Replies)
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