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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to remove '--X' from the whole file and using variables replace $oldvar with $newvar.
I have tried with double quotes but it doesn't seem to work. $newvar is set to /usr/bin/bash. Would appreciate some guidance.
newvar=$(which bash)
oldvar=/bin/bash
sed... (1 Reply)
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Hi All,
I have some text including Turkish characters and the 3rd party application that reads my file does not supporting this character set (at least, I have no control on it).
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I'm trying to replace "]Facebook" from the text
but
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:
\302\240
Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.
I am doing the following:
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am reading a file (GC_JAR.log) which has entries like:
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I want to replace all the entries of "secs]" with just "secs"
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file which has special characters. I can't see them when I "vi" the file. But I am sure there are some special un seen characters. How can I see them?
Please help.
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am getting very confused as to where should i quote special/metacharacters in shell.
Sometimes i write * directly and it works, othertimes i have to do "*".
Same is the case with other special characters like /,\,.,$,etc.
Can somebody give me link to somewhere where i can found... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have one file which is named ^? ( the DEL character )
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TYIA (2 Replies)
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