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# 22  
Old 12-15-2005
You gotta be kidding me. This looks much simpler. Forget all the sed statements. Use this awk instead.

Code:
awk '{ print "\""$0"\\r\\n\"" }' tmp.txt

tmp.txt will be your original input file, with no formatting done on it.

Alternativley see this post - Changing Special Characters Using Sed. You might get something out of it.
Last edited by vino; 12-16-2005 at 01:01 AM..
# 23  
Old 12-18-2005
Hi Vino,

Thanks for your efforts, i will try all these solution and then will update accordingly.

Regards
Gauri
# 24  
Old 12-19-2005
Hi Vino,

Thanks a lot it is working. Could you plese let me know how to replace the string using awk. Actually the solution u provied is woking in all the files except one in which i need to replace \ with \\ .

Could u please let me know the difference bewteen awk and sed utitilty.

Thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal
# 25  
Old 12-19-2005
That awk solution was given to suit your original input file.

If you need awk to replace patterns, it is not a very easy solution( I think). Sed is much better at that.

To replace a \ with \\, this sed will do

Code:
sed -e 's_\\_\\\\_g'

For eg
Code:
[/tmp]$ echo "a\s\c" | awk -F\\'{ print $1"\\\\"$2"\\\\"$3 }'
a\\s\\c
[/tmp]$ echo "a\s\c" | sed -e 's_\\_\\\\_g'
a\\s\\c

As you can see, finding $1, $2 et al for awk doesnt work very well.

You should read that Oreilly link that was given. It gives a much better description of both the tools.

Cheers'
Last edited by vino; 12-19-2005 at 11:49 AM.. Reason: Changed / to \
# 26  
Old 12-20-2005
sed was not working , tahts why i thought that might be awk will work so i asked that if awk can work. Actually i am having a file which have the special charaters starting with \ so sed command doesnt work for them. soon i will post that file.

Regards
Gauri
# 27  
Old 12-21-2005
Hi Vino,

I am unable replace \ with \\ . This is again because of the special characters.

Here is the example for the lines i am finding it difficult:

*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [invisible_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
^M
static_attrs.ppd.japanes

i want to replace \x82 with \\x82. But nothing is working.

Could you please help me.

Thanks & Regards
Gauri
# 28  
Old 12-22-2005
If you want to carry out all operations in one sed command, it could become not so easy.

But the last sed command that was provided, sure works

Code:
[/tmp]$ cat file
*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [invisible_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_yes:\x82\xcd\x82\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_no:\x82\xa2\x82\xa2\x82\xa6]^M
[/tmp]$ sed -e 's_\\_\\\\_g' file
*%EFILocal [invisible_yes:\\x82\\xcd\\x82\\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [invisible_no:\\x82\\xa2\\x82\\xa2\\x82\\xa6]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_yes:\\x82\\xcd\\x82\\xa2]^M
*%EFILocal [has disk raster?_no:\\x82\\xa2\\x82\\xa2\\x82\\xa6]^M
[/tmp]$

 
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