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Safely convert unicode strings to printable characters
I have many HTML files containing mixed unicode strings like \303\243 and printable characters like %s. What I'd like to do is converting the unicode strings into printable characters in a safe way.
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Processing shell script options with awk
I'm looking for way to process shell script arguments that is cleaner and more "self documenting" than getopt/getopts.
It would need to provide...
Full support of long options with or without a ...
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Sed and Awk learning material [closed]
I'm looking for some learning material for sed and awk, can anyone make any suggestions?
Please don’t refer to man and help pages.
-O-
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How can I call bc from within awk in this case?
OK, so I love my awk, but yeah, it has precision issues, and unfortunately there's no easy way for me to install the multi-precision extensions known as gawkextlib.
What I am doing is, I am working ...
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Combining files with 4 columns each, into 4 files for each column [closed]
So I have a bunch of text files which look like this:
T1
r1 a b c d
r2 d e f g
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T2
r1 h i j k
r2 l m n o
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And I want to make FOUR different text files in the following ...
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Show lines matching a pattern and the 4 lines before each
For example, from this file:
CREATE SYNONYM I801XS07 FOR I8010.I801XT07
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object
CREATE SYNONYM I801XS07 FOR ...
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How to build a long command string?
I've a sequence of commands to be used along with lot of pipings, something like this:
awk '{ if ($8 ~ "isad") {print $2, $5, "SE"} else {print $2, $5, "ANT"} }' ...
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How could I simplify this command to only use awk?
awk '/user/ {print $1 }' /etc/userdomains | sed 's/://'
the format of /etc/userdomains is
domain.tld: user
otherdomain.tld: otheruser
