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There are ways to directly enter escape characters into shell commands, but the method varies depending on what shell you're using, command history editing mode, etc.; but the following should work on any system using an ASCII based codeset:
or:
as long as you're using a shell that understands POSIX standard command substitutions.
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Corona, I'll have to remember that "inode" technique. After making sure there was only one file in the directory ending in G, the mv command changed the same to something standard like Rudic and Don suggested.
I had to take a hex dump of the ls -l to see its true name.
In this case, another way that work under Linux bash and I think work fine under sh,ksh,...
In fact, depend terminal configuration (often touch CTRL-V), we can check:
Here, in red, lnext show ^V (CTRL-V), so, you can write the name of file by typing:
'CTRL-V' and 'ESCAPE' and '[' and 'G' keys.
Hi Experts
I have an escape seperated fields in the unix file. And in the below format file I need to extract the first column. Please help its urgent.
cat -v op.dat | head
24397028^
I want to extract the file in below format ( with only first column )
24397028
2439707
thanks.
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Hi all,
I'm new to scripting.. facing some problems while inserting content of a file into another file...
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file1
======
working on linux
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hello,
can someone please suggest a script to rename a file that was generated today and filename that being generated daily starts with date, its a xml file.
here is example.
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#
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Hi,
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===== MySQL Query Check =====
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My file1.out data is some thing
abcabcppp
xyzxyzpqr
?????????
?????????
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abcabcppp
xyzxyzpqr
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Hi Guys,
I have an awk script that would search the input file for line that starts with a number 3 and copies into a new text file.
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Hi All,
I have a big log file i want to delete all characters (between 350th to 450th characters) starting at 350th character position to 450th character position.
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