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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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[solved] Read c++ unicode escape thingies in bash trough pipe?

Hi!

I have a c++ text file that contains lots of those things:

\u00..

Is there a program / command  I can pipe that trough to get the real / readable unicode characters for those escape sequences or whatever that is in my shell? So far the only working way I found was putting a

printf "$(.......)"

... around the whole text, but that's sort of... messy.

Last edited by whoops (2013-01-24 12:14:12)

Trilby

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Re: [solved] Read c++ unicode escape thingies in bash trough pipe?

I see an X-Y problem coming (what are you REALLY trying to do).  But what the hell, I'll answer your actual question:

while read -r line; do echo -e "$line"; done < file.cpp

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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: [solved] Read c++ unicode escape thingies in bash trough pipe?

Thanks!

Just been trying to get rid of some of those escape thingies in a shell scripts that reads from some variable/string definition or text files that were originally meant to be read by a C++ program... without making the code too hard to read...

What I was looking for turned out to be this:

| xargs -0 printf

... no idea how I could miss that "-0" the first 10 times I tried with xargs and it didn't work -.-"

=> solved.

Last edited by whoops (2013-01-24 12:19:23)