On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote:
>
> does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
> sequence) from text files?
>
Try col -b
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Hi Peter,
> does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
> sequence) from text files?
Sure,
sed 's/[^A-Z ]//g'
No kidding: Usually you want to specify which characters to allow,
not which characters to remove (default deny policy).
In case you want to allow more than
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Pieter.
> does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
> sequence) from text files?
Do you mean something like the ^M (\r) character ?
I recommend using tr, e.g.:
tr -d '\r' < name_of_inputfile >
On 10/26/07, Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
> sequence) from text files?
Not sure if this is what you are wanting.
tr '\r' '\n' < inputfile > outputfile
more info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
Pieter,
To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, use:
:%s/^V^M//g
The ^v is a CONTROL-V character and ^m is a CONTROL-M. When you type this,
it will look like this:
:%s/^M//g
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:3
Hi,
does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape
sequence) from text files?
Pieter
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