RE: Qshell and CCSID

Scott Klement suggested sed:

> > (3) Is there a Qshell utility that would let me find
> > and replace character sequences in stream files such
> > that I could replace all line feeds (or tabs) with
> > CRLF?
> 
> Uhhh...  There's sed, but the syntax is rather ugly.  You 
> could do this:
> 
>    rm outfile.txt
>    touch -C 1252 outfile.txt
>    grep "." infile.txt | sed "s/$/$(printf \\\\\\r)/g"> outfile.txt

There is also the tr ("translate") utility.  I'm not very experienced with
it, and the man page is not terribly helpful; but I did use it in a script
once where we had to remove line breaks from a file, concatenate the result
with another file, and write the output to a new file.  The code for that
(including comments, and from a Windows command script, ironically enough)
was:

        :: The tr (translate) Unix command with the -d (delete) option
removes the specified character(s); in this
        :: case '\r\n', or carriage return and line feed.  The output from
this is piped into the cat (concatenate)
        :: command, whose "-" parameter means read from standard input -- in
this case the pipe.  The second 
        :: parameter is a file containing the standard end text, and the
whole is redirected to the temporary file
        :: defined above.
        tr -d '\r\n' < "%filename%" |  cat - MeridianEndText.dat >
"%tempFile%"

The -d option deletes the string.  for the substitution we are interested in
here, I _think_ the following should work:

        grep "." infile.txt | tr '\n' '\r\n' > outfile.txt

Test thoroughly before use ;-)  The syntax is slightly easier on the eye
than the sed version, but then again, if the sed version works...

Cheers,

Martin.

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