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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
on ksh
What does the following do?
grep -v "toolbox" $home_oracle/.profile >$home_oracle/.profile.$$ Thanks.
Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: big123456
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I do have folders containing having funny strings in their names and one space.
First, I do remove the funny strings and replace the space by an underscore.
find . -name '* *' | while read file;
do
target=`echo "$file" | sed 's/... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tempestas
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
When editing a file, vi displays a special character as ^L. Can you tell me the escaped character to be used in awk? And can that escaped character be used in a regexp in both sed and awk? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: dmesserly
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have below line in a unix file, I want to delete one character after "Â".
20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap Â~V Hybrids
The result should be :
20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap  Hybrids
i dont want to use "~V" anywhere in the sed command or any other command, just remove... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mohsin.quazi
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi:
i have several thousand files from users and of course they use all kind of characters on filenames. I have things like:
My special report (1999 ) Lisa & Jack's work.doc
crazy.
How do I remove all this characters in the current dir and subdirs too?
Thanks. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jason7
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to unload file from a database. Which contains few lines with the character below. Rest of the data was unloaded appropriately.
a) What does this below character means?
b) How can i remove it,
I already have sed '/^$/d'
c) Will this effect the file by any means... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tostay2003
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to create files with special characters in its filenames for testing purposes. This is on a Linux RHEL4 but this should also be applicable on a Unix shell.
I am able to create files with special characters in the filenames...e.g.
cp -pv foo.gif \*special.gif
cp -pv foo.gif \... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sqa777
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am facing a weird problem. I have got a directory structure copied from windows to Linux. Some of the folders are named like
/gfs/data/Dow Jones $5/ DJ FCBOT_O_tick_1998.zip
/gfs/data/Dow Jones $5/ DJ FCBOT_O_tick_2000.CSV
/gfs/data/Dow Jones... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mitrashatru
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9. HP-UX
I'm trying to rename a file name but the original file has a special character caused by typo. I've tried numerous combination of characters but the file name (original) is still not being recognized which in turn, would not allow me to rename the file.
Can someone help? The filename is a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: genzbeat
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10. Programming
hey there
im a bit stuck on executing commands that include the special character '?'. can someone recommend a way on how i would be able to execute it?? i thought the glob function could be useful (still mite be) but upon entering the command
'ls pars?' it listed all the files in the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mile1982
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