On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:04:52 -0700, ktvarun wrote:

> Can anyone please throw some light on this issue.
>
> When I give a command like
> ls -ltcr | echo `awk '{print $9}'`
>
> i get a list of files in the directory. But there is also an EOF
> character after the last file that is displayed in the list.
>
> Can i get the output without the EOF character.
>
> FYI, I am giving this command inside DataStage ( a data warehousing
> tool ). There an EOF character is treated as an error.
>
> Thanks,
> Varun

ls -ltcr | echo `awk '{gsub("\nnn","");print $9}'`

Replace \nnn with the octal sequence for the character you want removed.

In article <1161612292.634281.274860@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
ktvarun@gmail.com wrote:

> Can anyone please throw some light on this issue.
>
> When I give a command like
> ls -ltcr | echo `awk '{print $9}'`
>
> i get a list of files in the directory. But there is also an EOF
> character after the last file that is displayed in the list.
>
> Can i get the output without the EOF character.
>
> FYI, I am giving this command inside DataStage ( a data warehousing
> tool ). There an EOF character is treated as an error.
>
> Thanks,
> Varun

Unix doesn't have an EOF character, so it's not clear what you're
talking about. The terminal driver allows you to type a character to
simulate an EOF condition on a terminal, but AFAIK it never *outputs*
this character in any end-of-file situation.

BTW, a simpler way to do the above command would be:

echo `ls -tcr`

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