If it has a meaning beyond its literal meaning, a meta-meaning, then we refer to it as a special character.
Questions tagged [special-characters]
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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, command substitution can also be written more…
dr_
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How to remove the ^[[1m ^[[22m ^[[4m ^[[24m characters while keeping the newline?
INPUT:
[user@notebook test]$ cat a.txt
music
musicsheet
sheetmusic
[user@notebook test]$ cat a.txt | cat -vte -
$
^[[1mmusic^[[22m$
^[[1mmusicsheet^[[22m$
^[[1msheetmusic^[[22m$
^[[4m^[[24m$
[user@notebook test]$
NEEDED OUTPUT (after removing…
pepite
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Remove control characters from /var/log/boot.log
I have a script that sends out email to sysadmin group when a server is powered on or off. The email contains dump of some important logs like /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure, /var/log/boot.log . The /var/log/boot.log contains some special…
GMaster
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# and @ special characters not working in my unix terminal
I want to see the functioning of # and @ in unix terminal but my terminal isnt able to use them and it just treats them as normal characters. Is there any online compiler where i can see their working. I have already tried some online compilers: …
Ayush N
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