Jared, "od -c" is your friend. Igor
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote: > I think tr is going to solve it, but now I have to figure out just what > character this is. > > thanks, > jared > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe [mailto:jdenicola at maxwellsystems dot com] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:18 AM > > Try piping to: tr -d '\r' > > "Jared Ingersoll" <jared at cswv dot com> 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,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/