Questions tagged [special-characters]
If it has a meaning beyond its literal meaning, a meta-meaning, then we refer to it as a special character.
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Are ∈ and ℝ symbols available in eqn/roff?
A set of commonly used symbols to represent that a variable belongs to a given real coordinate space are ∈ ("ELEMENT OF", Unicode U+2208) and ℝ ("DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL R", Unicode ...
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How to replace Unicode code numbers by UTF-8 characters in a number of files?
I have 500 files that contain escaped Unicode characters like so:
Albert Vel\u00e1zquez
V\u00e9ronique Ekin
etc. The data was queried from a server by a script through XMLHttpRequests and I assume ...
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Difference between wc -c and ${#}?
I've created script, where I encoded string 28 times with base64. Then I wanted to echo count of chars in outputted string.
First I used ${#var} which gave me 34070.
Then I tried on the same string
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How to make bash ignore andsign in xargs command?
My code goes something like this:
echo "$result" | xargs -P50 -I@ bash -c '{ printf "@ $(curl --write-out "%{http_code}" -L -s --output /dev/null @)\n"; }'
Where result ...
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What is the difference between a byte and a character (at least *nixwise)?
I understand that any character is comprised of one or more byte/s.
If I am not mistaken, at least in *nix operating systems, a character will generally (or totally?) be comprised of only one byte.
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Shortest one-line shell script to print all special characters [duplicate]
I'm looking for a shortest one line shell script to print all special characters in ASCII table (from chr(32) --> chr(127))
Thanks for all your help & support!
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How can I replace a string with a string that contains a special character, using sed [duplicate]
For example
replace
keystore=".
with
keystore="./
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Ubuntu: Display SOH character in Terminal
When using the terminal with Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, the SOH character is not being displayed when outputted from a program.
The same program also successfully prints the output to a file which correctly ...
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Matching a string that contains regex tags
I have a bunch of video files with associated subtitles. I am trying to program a bash script that merges the subtitles and videos into matroshka containers.
The input video files are named "...
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What would cause deleting a character in vi to have garbled text appear on the screen?
I can't seem to figure out why this happens or even what to search for.
Two videos demonstrating the issue:
https://www.loom.com/share/7497428d757e45399faa5ebcf391e1be
https://www.loom.com/share/...
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Special Characters in Username for SSH not passing to remote device
I've been trying to beat my head around this. Bing, Google, and Yahoo don't seem to get my question, hence here I am.
I have a user D5P$3r that I need to pass from my Linux Server to my router.
I've ...
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What can the C1 control codes be used for?
Today I discovered that there is a significantly large group of additional control codes, called C1 control codes, spanning from U+0080—U+009F (32 characters). I think that it's an interesting fact ...
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Handle umlauts in file names when using xarg
I've seen some similar questions here where people have problems with xargs handling spaces in file names. Surprisingly, I don't run into this issue, but a similar one.
I'm copying a fixed amount of ...
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Why does GTK change the c-cedil? Is it GTK?
I have a very old silly problem when working with browsers in KDE in Fedora, and I was never able to fix it, no mater how hard I googled for the solution.
I use two keyboard Layouts, one is
us ...
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Best practice to read password, containing special characters like $!@`', into Bash script
I am trying to read a password from stdin into a variable in a Bash script. This variable should then be expanded into an ssh-command and transmitted to the server. There, the password should arrive ...
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How to fix malformatted special characters in Pop OS, that occoured after an system crash?
This afternoon my computer (operating Pop OS!) was not reacting to keyboard or mouse interactions, I tried everything but couldn't find out why this happened. So I did a cold start, I assume the ...
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How to strip off certain hexadecimal characters in Bash?
I have gathered a wordlist for person to follow on twitter. However, there is a problem.
When i cat and do xxd a extra hidden characters are found. i.e 1b5b 6d1b 5b4b . I need to strip those character....
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German Umlauts on US keybaord
I am using an US keyboard layout, because it's more convenient for programming, but since I am german I need the german umlauts for texting. (Umlauts like ÄäÖöÜü)
I am running Manjaro with KDE.
I ...
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Automatically render special characters used for displaying progress bars etc. in program output saved in a file
I have run a program in the shell and redirected the output to a file.
The program involved is displaying lots of moving progress bars and the like. So the output file contains special characters ...
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How can I use passwords with bash special characters on the command line? [duplicate]
I have a command line that takes a password . The password starts with characters '!1'. E.g. '!1x9y377s' . If I execute a command with that password, then history expansion occurs and the first two ...
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Diacritic characters (ō, ó, á, ä, ö, ü etc) support in Debian shell
I run a server on Debian as a file storage. Some files and directories contain those symbols in their name, and all those symbols get replaced with ? (or ? is what shell output shows me) when they get ...
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Using tr to place the words of a file in order so that each line contains 1 word in order of appearence and without spaces
I want to remove the special characters of a text files for that I found the following command
tr -d '[:punct:]' < file.txt
But, I also want to change the format of the file so that each line ...
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sed command is not working to remove the special character ( Copyright and trademark symbols )
I am trying to use sed command to delete the copyright characters.But it is not working. Below is the command which am using.
sed 's/; © E/; (c)/g' input.txt > output.txt
but when am using vi ...
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Why doesn't the command tr “\'\\\”\?\!“ ”01234" work?
In terminal, if I define some variable char as follows:
export char=\'\\\"\?\!
In effect, char is the string
'\"?!
And then I use the tr command to replace '\"?! with numbers 01234
tr "\'\\\"\?\!"...
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How to find special characters (say like the musical symbol which denotes when a song is being played
Sometimes I edit subtitle files (.srt) and at times I get a place where the music symbol should be used. I am nonplussed as to how to get the music symbol to come up in the editor. I use editors such ...
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sort special characters like + and -
I have a file consisting of several lines and columns. The columns are delimited by \t. Now I would like to sort the file based on the second column, which can be done with, e.g. sort -f -t$'\t' -k2 ...
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Híndi text and font display problems
I'm starting a híndi course and all non-english (e.g. Namastē in Híndi Alphabet) characters don't appear correctly on my OS and programs. Is there any way to solve it? even just in my browsers? (...
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delete specific character “[” from a file
I want to remove a character "[" from a file. I tried
sed -i 's/[//g' 'filename'
however I get the following error
sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unterminated `s' command
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How to avoid bash from accepting non-printable characters at the prompt?
I recently ran a command at my shell:
# yum whatprovides xdotool
Error: No Matches found
However, my package manager actually has this package:
# yum whatprovides xdotool
xdotool-1:3.20150503.1-7....
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How to avoid and recover shell command history from an unwanted incursion of non-printable characters?
$ history
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242 yum whatprovides */bin/xdotool
243 yum provides */bin/xdotool
244 yum provides xdotool
245 yum whatprovides xdotool
246 yum whatprovides xdotool
At the prompt:
up
[...
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less: search, but ignoring special characters
I'm trying to view large log files. I have a complex shell script that will take a log file and run it through a tangle of text-mangling commands to insert formatting and colouring, and pipe the ...
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is it possible to remove a `:~` directory
I can see a directory got created :~ on my server
How to delete it as I can't even do cd :~
and I tried deleting it sudo rm -R :~ but I can see a lot of things are inside that folder?
What to do to ...
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Weird spam of characters 61R;61R;
Not really sure what happened cause I just left it while it was already done downloading and was in the middle of installing phase.
So I would like to ask if anyone else has experienced this for me ...
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screen logging - How to ommit interactive shell control characters and prompt?
One of my first questions. Please comment if further explanation or information is required or if the question is not like it's supposed to be here
I'm using screen to automatically start servers (...
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Can I make characters uncopyable in a terminal emulator?
I run fish (in gnome-terminal) with a custom style that gives me information about the current Git repository:
That's all very fine, but when I want to copy-paste some command with its output like so:...
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echo strings but extra question mark was added to the output
Strange "?" got added to the filename output.
SCRIPTS="/path_to_script/"
SUMMER=`cat /path_to_file/summer.txt`
for i in ${SUMMER};
do cat <<- EOF > $SCRIPTS/20190430_$(echo ${i})_step4.r
#...
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Include special characters when sorting files
I'm trying to make Linux include special characters when sorting filenames. The sort order I'm trying to achieve is: first all special characters, then numbers, then letters (case insensitive).
The ...
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How to change the newline position [duplicate]
I have a file that contains string in each line. I used this file as an input in a program that reads them automatically. The program seem to not be able to read the strings correctly. I tried to ...
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How to write romanian special characters with groff?
I've got myself into experimenting with groff and from the start I found out the romanian special characters I type in vim are all fine (I ran setxkbmap ro), but get messed up in the pdf export.
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Why can't I open these device nodes?
[root@archlinux xtricman]# ls -l /dev/pts
total 0
crw--w---- 1 xtricman tty 136, 0 Feb 24 19:24 0
c--------- 1 root root 5, 2 Feb 24 19:10 ptmx
[root@archlinux xtricman]# ls -l /mnt
total 12
...
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How to grep '$$$$$'? [duplicate]
I want to check the absence of the following sequence of characters $$$$$ (i.e., 5 dollar signs) in a json file using grep as it has been used instead of comma to separate fields and I need to make ...
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ssh sqlplus command has $ symbol and it gets substituted
I'm Running some SQLPLUS code over ssh.
ssh -q node1 'export ORACLE_SID=DB11D_1;ORAENV_ASK=NO;. oraenv >/dev/null 2>&1;sqlplus -s / as sysdba << ENDSQL
whenever sqlerror exit 1
alter ...
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Is the “tick” or “acute accent” character ´ (not `) used for anything in Linux shell?
We know that the backtick character is used for command substitution:
chown `id -u` /mydir
Which made me wonder: is the tick character ´ used for anything in the Linux shell?
Note: incidentally, ...
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Grep words with special symbols
How do I grep this? (Including the special characters)
"Limit reached."[\n]"
I tried back-slashing the special symbols but end up not working, like this:
grep '\"Limit reached\.\"\[\\n\]\" '
I ...
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Error with grep and find
When I try to execute :
$ man find | grep "-mtime"
I get this message back :
grep: invalid max count
I wonder how to search with the -
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How to escape a character in a heredoc bash script
I have a bash script which read an input file and using a heredoc to ssh to a server using expect, but am having issue escaping some special character in the input file. Here is what I have..
I have ...
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How to remove control Z characters from a file?
File has control Z( ^Z) characters in them. I tried sed 's/^Z//g' file_name but not working. Even tried perl script but not removing them. Please let me know if there is way to remove this character.
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How do I remove a special character in a file?
I had to use OCR to get the text of a very large script I did not want to type by hand.
I have multiple lines like this
echo "<91>ps <97>eF|grep...
It should read;
echo "`ps -eF|grep......
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How to print filled shapes in the terminal?
How to print a filled circle or shapes in the terminal like:
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curl with Umlaut causes “JSON parse error: Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x22” [duplicate]
I'm running below curl command from the command line (Git Bash on Windows) or as part of a Bash Script.
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d "{\"...
