Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:44:25 -0500 From: Jon LaBadie To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unicode files Message-ID: <20030113074424.GB18104@butch.jgcomp.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030112210002.02720e50@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030112210002.02720e50@pop3.cris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i At 21:18 2003-01-12, Clancy Malcolm wrote: >Can cygwin programs like grep process a unicode file? > >I have a Windows 2000 backup log file which seems to be a unicode file. >When I cat the file under cygwin it displays with spaces between every >second character: e.g. > >ÿ_B a c k u p S t a t u s > O p e r a t i o n : B a c k u p > A c t i v e b a c k u p d e s t i n a t i o n : 4 m m D D S > M e d i a n a m e : " T S C 4 - 2 0 0 3 - 0 1 - 1 3 - 2 - 3 5 p " > >When I cat in under linux it displays as a normal text file. I have a >script which grep's for particular patterns and emails matching lines, but >it won't work with these log files. > >Any suggestions greatly appreciated. For the ntbtlog.txt file I found this worked as a conversion tool for me. tr -d '\0\r' < InputFile > OutputFile But that is the only unicode file I've had to deal with. -- Jon H. LaBadie jcyg@jgcomp.com JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/