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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've got a file where each line is separated by ^M characters. I want to be able to cat the file without those lines. When I cat the file now what I see are blank lines. However, the blank lines are actually ^M characters; when I open the file with vi they show up.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
In my output file i am getting control m character and also the line feeds at different places and with different combinations, the content of the file is supposed to be in a single line but if there is a line feed in between then from there onwards it's going into new line.
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Hi All,
I need to remove control m character from a file.
Steps which i am doing in shell script are:
1) We are comparing the header of the file to the database table header
Here the file header has control-m characters. How do i remove it.
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I have developed a small script to remove the Control M characters that get embedded when we move any file from Windows to Unix. For some reason, its not working in all scenarios. Some times I still see the ^M not being removed. Is there anything missing in the script:
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in a file we are getting control character in a file , is there any way that they can be removed once we have the file
for eg.
BEGIN-PROCEDURE INITIALIZE
^M
LET #row_count = 0^M
^M
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I need help removing the last character of every line if it is a certain character. For example I need to get rid of a % character if it is in the last position.
Input:
aaa%
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ccc
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