This is the mail archive of the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data


On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently using cygwin (updated yesterday) with a WIN2K resource kit
> utility to dump logs from event viewer into a comma delimited file. One
> behavior that I have noticed (and occasionally notice with cygwin in
> general) is that within the data, there are what I believe to be carriage
> returns (show up in an excel spreadsheet as a square character). This data
> will eventually end up in an Oracle database, so these characters are
> undesirable. I was wondering if there is a way (outside of manually editing
> the file, perhaps with sed or awk) to remove these characters?
>
> Here's the command that's producing them in the bash shell:
>
> /cygdrive/d/EventAudit/dumpel.exe -d 1 -s MyPC -l system -t -c |
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/awk '{print "MyPC" "," "system" "," $0}' >>
> /cygdrive/d/EventAudit/serverevents.`/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/date +%Y%m%d`
>
> I was unable to find any reference to an automated resolution on google or
> cygwin FAQ.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Jared

You might want to look into the "nobinmode" setting in the CYGWIN
environment variable.  See
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster."  -- Patrick Naughton

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]