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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I've a flat file in the following format:
AB\001\CDED\001\ABC\001\nEG\001\HIJF\001\EFG\001\nHI\003\HIUL\003\HIJ\003
And I want to substitute \n with the carriage return. Any help is appreciated!
Regards,
- Seth (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to remove carriage returns/line feeds in a text file, but in a specific cadence:
Read first line (Header Line 1), remove cr/lf at the end (replace it with a space ideally);
Read the next line (Line of Text 2), leave the cr/lf intact;
Read the next line, remove the cr/lf;
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I want to remove carriage return in a file using some unix command without writing a script
my file is as follows
abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4
abc5 bac6
abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4
abc5 bac6
I want the output as follows:
abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4 abc5 bac6
abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4 abc5 bac6
,
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am trying to remove the carriage return on the record which starts with ADD, MODIFY, or DELETE keyword as the first value in the record. If the records does not start with anyone of these keywords then combine the records with the previous record (line).
Input
File name xyz.txt... (6 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi can anyone please tell me the difference between carriage return, linefeed and newline ? (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi - I tried to remove ^M in a delimited file using "tr -d "\r" and "sed 's/^M//g'", but it does not work quite well. While the ^M is removed, the format of the record is still cut in half, like
a,b, c
c,d,e
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello I'm trying to write a shell script which can remove a carriage return and/or line feed from a file, so the resulting file all ends up on one line.
So, I begin with a file like this
text in file!<CR>
line two!<CR>
line three!<CR>
END!<CR>
And I want to end up with a file... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm not very familiar with unix shell. I want to replace the combination of two carriage returns and one newline with one carriage return and one newline. I think the best way to do this is to use sed. I tried something like this:
sed -e "s#\#\#g" file.txt
but it doesn't work.
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with multiple records in it and want to create a single record by removing all the carriage returns, is there a sed command or another command that will easily allow this to happen.
current layout
813209A
813273C
812272B
expected result
813209A813273C812272B
previously I... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello there,
I need to remove carriage return characters (\n and \r) from any input file specified. This is what I am doing right now:
- dumping the file to octal format using the command 'od -c file_name
- removing and \s and \n characters using sed commands
What I need to do now is... (3 Replies)
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