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From: wayne on 5 Oct 2005 04:10 I'm manually formatting a text file and want to replace some text characters with hard returns using the "find and replace" feature in a text editor. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to represent a hard return so that it would work in the "replace" command box. I've tried openoffice, kwrite, kate, vim, kword, and abiword. I used to do this easily in Word Perfect but have not had any success since moving to Linux. Am I missing something or is the ability to "find and replace" hard returns just not there? Thanks, Wayne Mandriva 2005LE
From: Bit Twister on 5 Oct 2005 04:25 On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:10:02 GMT, wayne wrote: > I'm manually formatting a text file and want to replace some > text characters with hard returns using the "find and replace" feature in > a text editor. However, I haven't been able to figure out how to > represent a hard return so that it would work in the "replace" > command box. I've tried openoffice, kwrite, kate, vim, kword, and abiword. > I used to do this easily in Word Perfect but have not had any success > since moving to Linux. Am I missing something or is the ability to "find > and replace" hard returns just not there? In the unix/linux world a linefeed is the hard return. In the windows world it is a carriage return linefeed. Now if you want to convert files between the two systems you can use recode. man recode for extra points. I have created two aliases to do the work for me. Placing the following in ~/.bashrc alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1' # remove doze's cr alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc' # add doze's cr then, clicking up a new terminal you can test by copying a file for testing, and flipping the carriage retun in and out. Example: cp ~/.bash_login xx unix2dos xx diff ~/.bash_login xx dos2unix xx diff ~/.bash_login xx Note seeing the carriage return in the diff results is kinda hard. :)
From: Peter on 5 Oct 2005 04:52 wayne wrote: > I'm manually formatting a text file and want to replace some > text characters with hard returns using the "find and replace" feature in > a text editor. Open the file in Kate, then use Tools > End of Line , then select whether you want Unix or MS or Mac style, then save the file. That's assuming you want to replace one style of line end with another. However, if you want to replace some particular text characters with a hard return, you could use khexedit which has more powerful find & replace capability. HTH Peter
From: wbarwell on 5 Oct 2005 09:33 wayne wrote: > I'm manually formatting a text file and want to replace some > text characters with hard returns using the "find and replace" > feature in a text editor. However, I haven't been able to > figure out how to represent a hard return so that it would work > in the "replace" command box. I've tried openoffice, kwrite, > kate, vim, kword, and abiword. I used to do this easily in Word > Perfect but have not had any success since moving to Linux. Am > I missing something or is the ability to "find and replace" > hard returns just not there? > > Thanks, > Wayne > Mandriva 2005LE You'd have to find the character code representing a hard return and have F&R use that. I am not sure what that hex code would be nor how to get any of these to replace using a special code like that. The usual way people do that would be with sed. sed -ie 's/xyz/return/' file.txt Try comp.unix.shell to ask around what the sed character representing a return would be, or check google for a sed tutorial. In sed as above, the xyz character string would be relaced with the "return" string in the file text.file. Or if you used * all text files in a directory, or *.txt all files with extension .txt and so on. -- The official spokesman of the Foxes said today that investigation into what happened to the henhouse may be needed. Cheerful Charlie
From: Bit Twister on 5 Oct 2005 10:17
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:33:22 -0500, wbarwell wrote: > Try comp.unix.shell to ask around what the sed character > representing a return would be, man ascii for code values |