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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
Im having a bit of difficulty with this one and I suspect its because of the character I want to match against maybe causing me a problem, but i wanted to remove everything up to (but not including) the first instance of '{' in a string
so for example the string that I want to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hcclnoodles
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Does anyone know of a command that will extract only the Login name alison and year 2005 from the following output.
jamesm> finger alison
Login name: alison In real life: Alison Smith - Queensland
Directory: /data/home/alison Shell: /usr/bin/ksh... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to removing ^M characters from a file and combine the line with the next line.
ex:
issue i have:
ABC^M^M
DEF
solution i need:
ABCDEF
I found that you by using the following command you can remove new line characters.
tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv
still... (10 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
I have a perl script conv.pl. when i execute this file and direct i to log file I see lots of ^M characters in the log file. There is no ^M in conv.pl file. Log file is generated only after conv.pl is executed.
Please help as how to get rid of these.
This conv.pl is going to get schduled... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi
I have a perl script conv.pl. when i execute this file and direct i to log file I see lots of ^M characters in the log file. There is no ^M in conv.pl file. Log file is generated only after conv.pl is executed.
Please help as how to get rid of these.
This conv.pl is going to get schduled... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Any help on how to do the following? :eek:
I have an infile as follows:
_thisishowyouwritehelloworld
_thisisalsohowyouwritehelloworld2
I want to delete the characters from "_" to "how" and be left with:
youwritehelloworld
youwritehelloworld2
I am able to do delete from a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dr_sabz
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi i'm new to shell scripts and have a small problem
i am running a batch converter that returns all flash .flv files in a directory and create a png image from each one
the problem i have is the $1 variable , its ok on the first call but on the secound call $1.png , i have extra... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: wingchun22
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8. HP-UX
Hi,
I have a very huge file and it contains some unprintable characters like ^H and ^D.
If I try to remove using cat test1.ser| tr -d '\136 110'>newfile1 it is only removing ^and all spaces in the file.
How can I remove these characters (^D ^H) and keep my spaces as it is?
Thanks &... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: arsheshadri
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file that has semicolons in it (;) is there a way to just remove these in the file. Example
name: Joe Smith; group: Group1;
name: Mary White; group: Group2; (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have few files in unix which are in dos format. While I am copying these files, ^M, ^@, etc characters are being generated.
I tried dos2unix command in Linux and it doesn't work.
I tried sed to remove these characters but they won't go.
I came to about this 'tr' command and tried to use it... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: chiru_h
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