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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to create a test text file with the special characters \342\200\223 in it and to be able to use sed maybe to delete them
I tried doing it using vi by pressing CTRL-V and then typing 342 but it does not work. After pressing CTRL-V and typing 342 it seems to just insert the numbers... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a "|" delimited file that is exported from a database.
There is one column in the file which has description/comments entered by some application user. It has "Control-M" character and "New Line" character in between the text.
Hence, when i export the data, this record with the new... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi....I have a xml file which is having lots of special characters which I need to find out and put the distinct list of those into a text file. The list of special characters is not specific, it can be anything at different point of time.
Can anyone help me to find out the same and list out?
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have flat file which has data like this
glid¿as_liste¿025175456
How can I print these lines into new file? (4 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Well, I've searched the forum, but couldn't find an option, that would help me. I'm really a dummie in unix, so here it goes.
I've got like 50k files in a single catalogue. One of them contains a string:
Including the box/square brackets. I tried to find it manually, and use some search... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
i am trying to remove all special charecters().,/\~!@#%^$*&^_- and others from a tab delimited file.
I am using the following code.
while read LINE
do
echo $LINE | tr -d '=;:`"<>,./?!@#$%^&(){}'|tr -d "-"|tr -d "'" | tr -d "_"
done < trial.txt > output.txt
Problem
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am stuck with a problem here.
Suppose i have a variable which is assigned some string containing special charatcers. for eg:
$a="abcdef^bbwk#kdbcd@";
I have to remove the special characters using Perl. The text is assigned to the variable implicitly.
How to do it? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: agarwal
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HI All
I need a shell script ehich removes all special characters from file and converts the file to UTF-* format
Specail characters to be removed must be configurable.
strIllegal = @"?/><,:;""'{|\\+=-)(*&^%$#@!~`";
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Discussion started by: sujithchandra
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can I get some help on this please, I have looked at the many post with similar questions and have tried the solutions and they are not working for my scenario which is:
I have a text file (myfile) that contains
b_log=$g_log/FILENAME.log
echo "Begin processing file FILENAME " >> $b_log
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10. AIX
By more, vi, cat etc commands special characters (few control characters) are not identified.
Is there any way to find out those?
Thanks
Sumit (3 Replies)
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