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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Team,
I am having 100 EBCDIC files (i.e. DAT extension) and need to convert them into ASCII File by unix shell script.
I tried with DD Command but its not providing output as expected.
Sample Text:
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גהאבדוחס@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Expected Output:... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have an ascii file in which few columns are having hex values which i need to convert into ascii. Kindly suggest me what command can be used in unix shell scripting?
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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While transferring file from FTP software like Filezilla the files gets corrupted.
Is there any way I can check if the recently transferred file is in ASCII and not corrupted. I have tried using file -i filename command which does tell if the file character set is ASCII or binary... (6 Replies)
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4. Red Hat
Hello all,
To give you all a little bit of background. We recently migrated from HP-UX to Redhat Linux and one of the command I used to run on HP-UX to convert an EBCDIC file to ASCII file isn't working on Linux. The code is as follow:
cat workout2.dat | dd cbs=250 conv=block conv=ascii... (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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I have a file which is around 193 gb in size. This file has tonnes of spaces and I need to sanitize it.
I tried to use awk script to split this file but it gave me an error like line to long...
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have a requirement to create a formatted text.
That is., I have a plain text composed to send it through an Email using mailx.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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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)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
file abc
abc: English text
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file abc
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9. UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers
I've been having trouble trying to read an ASCII file. I'm on an IRIX machine, by the way. I've tried "cat" and I get a bunch of unreadable text, and the "string" command gets the "Command not Found" error. Please advise.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everybody!
Situation:
I have a large ASCII file (for example: 1-2 Mbytes) without linebreaks (\n).
Task:
I like inserting linebreaks after all 420 digits (byte).
(pattern: *\n*\n*\n...etc.)
My problem:
How? :-)
I like using shell script or (maybe) AWK (short) program.
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