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Script failing with “command not found: ^M”
When I try to run the following script in zsh, via the command /bin/zsh ~/.set_color_scheme.sh I get the following error:
command not found: ^M
The script has u+x permissions and it used to work on ...
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Printing decimal to ascii character, my command does not output as intended
I wanted to output a string of all the ascii characters with the following command
for i in `seq 32 127`; do printf "%c" $i; done
The output of the above command is:
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How to produce a file encoded in Mac OS Roman
Inside a bash script I have a line that creates and then inside a loop, append strings to a text file, something like
echo $myTextString >> file.txt
I need this final file to be formatted ...
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How to specify characters using hexadecimal codes in `grep`?
I am using following command to grep character set range for hexadecimal code 0900 (instead of अ) to 097F (instead of व). How I can use hexadecimal code in place of अ and व?
bzcat archive.bz2 | grep ...
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How to print all printable ASCII chars in CLI?
How can I list all the printable ASCII characters in the terminal?
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bulk rename (or correctly display) files with special characters
I have a bunch of directories and subdirectories that contain files with special characters, like this file:
robbie@phil:~$ ls test�sktest.txt
test?sktest.txt
Find reveals an escape sequence:
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