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Until threadstarter provides us with details here is my suspicion:

"Xe8" or so are not really sequences of characters, but some weird control character. perhaps it would be easiest for him to open the file in question in a vi, issue ":set list" and then look again at the characters in question.

Another way would be to "cat /file/in/question | od -ax | more" and see how it looks there.

Regarding the regexp: I'm sure your solution will work, but couldn't it be further reduced to:

sed 's/.*/"&\\r\\n"/'

bakunin

Hi Vino,

Sorry for late reply,,,here are few lines i am sending which are in problem:

file abc:
*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]
*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l\x97gica]

so output lines are as :
file xyz
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S"\x92"]"
"*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l"\x97"gica]"

But when i cat on abs it does not show x92 or x97. I guess these are special charter in spanish language

So can u please help me now?


Thanks & Regards
Gauri

See this the line i have echoed and the put in a file gauri

$echo "*%EFILocal [print status:Estado de impresi\x97n]"
*%EFILocal [print status:Estado de impresi\x97n]

so when i cat on it it gives me the following:

$cat gauri
*%EFILocal [print status:Estado de impresin]

As u sugessted i have run the command and here is the out put but i can not make out anything from that.

$ cat gauri | od -ax
0000000 * % E F I L o c a l sp [ p r i n
252a 4645 4c49 636f 6c61 5b20 7270 6e69
0000020 t sp s t a t u s : E s t a d o sp
2074 7473 7461 7375 453a 7473 6461 206f
0000040 d e sp i m p r e s i etb n ] nl
6564 6920 706d 6572 6973 6e97 0a5d
0000056


Regards
Gauri

hi Vino,

What i guess if i am able to escape these character some how then my problem might get reolved but i dont know how to escape these characters.

I am having many text files for different langauges like spanish, german etc. Every where i am facing the same problem.

Regard,
Gauri

I dont think this should make a difference. But give it a try.

Code:

sed -e 's_^\(.*\)$_\"\1\\r\\n\"_g' xyz

What are trying to make out of the document ? What format is it ?

Here is a workaround for those special lines.

You need to run this sed statement after the initial sed statement.

Code:

[/tmp]$ cat tmp.txt
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S"\x92"]"
"*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l"\x97"gica]"
[tmp]$ sed -e 's_^\(.*\)"\(\\.*[^"]\)"\(.*"\)$_\1\2\3_' tmp.txt 
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]"
"*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l\x97gica]"
[/tmp]$

If you need it in one sed statement it would look like this

Code:

sed -e 's_^\(.*\)$_\"\1\\r\\n\"_g' -e 's_^\(.*\)"\(\\.*[^"]\)"\(.*"\)$_\1\2\3_g' xyz

Or an awk statement can do something similiar.

Looks easier to understand.

Code:

[/tmp]$ cat tmp.txt
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]"
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S"\x92"]"
"*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l"\x97"gica]"
[/tmp]$ awk -F\" '{if(NF==3) print $0; else print "\""$2$3$4$5$6"\"" }' tmp.txt
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]"
"*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:S\x92]"
"*%EFILocal [logical printer:impresora l\x97gica]"
[/tmp]$