ASCII(1) General Commands Manual ASCII(1)NAME
ascii - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file
SYNOPSIS
ascii [-n] [file]
OPTIONS -n Extract the lines containing nonASCII characters
EXAMPLES
ascii file >outf # Write all the ASCII lines on outf
ascii -n <file >outf
# Write all the nonASCII lines on outf
DESCRIPTION
Sometimes a file contains some nonASCII characters that are in the way. This program allows the lines containing only ASCII characters to
be grepped from the file. With the -n flag, the nonASCII lines are grepped. No matter whether the flag is used or not, the program
returns an exit status of true if the file is pure ASCII, and false otherwise.
SEE ALSO tr(1).
ASCII(1)
Check Out this Related Man Page
ASCII-XFR(1) Linux Users Manual ASCII-XFR(1)NAME
ascii-xfr - upload/download files using the ASCII protocol
SYNOPSIS
ascii-xfr -s|-r [-ednv] [-l linedelay] [-c characterdelay] filename
DESCRIPTION
Ascii-xfr Transfers files in ASCII mode. This means no flow control, no checksumming and no file-name negotiation. It should only be used
if the remote system doesn't understand anything else.
The ASCII protocol transfers files line-by-line. The EOL (End-Of-Line) character is transmitted as CRLF. When receiving, the CR character
is stripped from the incoming file. The Control-Z (ASCII 26) character signals End-Of-File, if option -e is specified (unless you change
it to Cotrol-D (ASCII 4) with -d).
Ascii-xfr reads from stdin when receiving, and sends data on stdout when sending. Some form of input or output redirection to the modem
device is thus needed when downloading or uploading, respectively.
OPTIONS -s Send a file.
-r Receive a file. One of -s or -r must be present.
-e Send the End-Of-File character (Control-Z, ASCII 26 by default) when uploading has finished.
-d Use the Control-D (ASCII 4) as End-Of-File character.
-n Do not translate CR to CRLF and vice versa.
-v Verbose: show tranfer statistics on the stderr output.
-l milliseconds
When transmitting, pause for this delay after each line.
-c milliseconds
When transmitting, pause for this delay after each character.
file Name of the file to send or receive. When receiving, any existing file by this name will be truncated.
USAGE WITH MINICOM
If you want to call this program from minicom(1), start minicom and go to the Options menu. Select File transfer protocols. Add the fol-
lowing lines, for example as protocols I and J.
I Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -sv Y U N Y
J Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -rv Y D N Y
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
Jukka Lahtinen, walker@netsonic.fi
SEE ALSO minicom(1)
$Date: 2006/10/28 14:35:59 $ ASCII-XFR(1)
How can one step through an ascii file line by line looking for a word and then pull out the whole section that the word is in. I have a project working Oracles tkprof utility where I am trying to look for a word and need to pull out the section of the ascii file that the word is in. I have not... (12 Replies)
Is there a way to determine the ascii value of a character? For example, let's say a shell variable has the value 'A'. I would like it's ascii value (e.g. 65 in this case). I would like to do this from a script (preferably ksh). (12 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone please help me ascci to decimal conversion in bash
I have a file which contains stream of numbers like this,these are ascci values
729711810132973278105991013268971213233
I want to covert it to its actual value like upper code's decimal is
"Have a Nice Day!"
... (15 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing EBCDIC to ASCII Binary conversion on Solaris i-series Unix system.
However this is working fine on Solaris Sparc Unix system.
Input file having EBCDIC format does not work on Solaris i-series Unix system.
Could you please tell me, what will be the root cause for same? (14 Replies)
I am writing a bash script to do some parsing on a log and I am running into a problem when it comes to converting only certain sections of the file from hex to ascii or hex to decimal.
Data Example:
The hex values after Hardware and SW Version I need to convert from Hex to ASCII and the... (16 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I have a 70MB EBCDIC file, with record length 102, block size 32742 and IBM standard label.
I commanded
dd if=input file of=outputfie ibs=32742 cbs=102 conv=ascii
but I still don't get a viewable file under ASCII.
Can anyone told me what's the problem?
Do I need... (12 Replies)
I have a input file which is EBCIDIC and it has packed decimals.
Can anyone help me to convert EBCIDIC file to ASCII(Need to convert even Packed decimal values also to normal format) (12 Replies)
Hi,
I want to convert ebcdic values to ascii values. Are there anyany specific c++ libraries with g++ compiler, which can do it ?
gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54) (19 Replies)
We are getting extended Ascii characters in the input file and my requirement is to search and replace them with a space. I am using the following command
LANG=C sed -e 's// /g'
It is doing a good job, but in some cases it is replacing the extended characters with two spaces. So my input... (12 Replies)
I have a file in my Unix ( SOLARIS ) with EBCDIC format...I want this file to read in ASCII OR unicode...Is it possible with UNIX to convert this file on ASCII OR UNICODE format from EBCDIC format?
I was searching through web and found only conversion table :(
Request Rejected
Below is... (16 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to remove (SELECTIVE - passed as argument) Extended ASCII using Awk based on adhoc basis. Can you please let me know how to do it. I have to implement this using awk only.
Thanks & Regads (14 Replies)
I need to convert a binary file which in encoded using base32 encoding technique and convert that into readible ASCII so that i can load the same in DB.
is there any command to do the same.
sample from the binary file lools like :
... (18 Replies)
hi. I have a requirement where I need to REPLACE all alphabets from an alphanumeric input string into their respective ASCII decimal value. For example:
If the input string is ABAC123, the output should be 65666567123
I am seeking a single line command, and I was trying searching for options... (21 Replies)
Hello,
I am on AIX.
When I encounter extended ascii characters and special characters on a file I need to print..
Byte position, actual character and line number.
Is there a simple command that can give me the above result ?
Thanks in advance (38 Replies)
Hi,
I have a input file which is EBCIDIC and it has packed decimals.
Can anyone help me to convert EBCIDIC file to ASCII(Need to convert even Packed decimal values also to normal format).
Thanks
swapna (12 Replies)