On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:08:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Is there a way to remove all control characters from a file? : eg: I have a file that has characters: ^M, ^@, ^L, etc which need to be : removed, but the file also contains: � and alike that need to stay. : How could I accomplish this?
Check tr -d. You might also want to use -c. Don't forget that ^J is NL, which you probably want to keep. -- Christopher Vance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
