On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:08:38AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > 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?
You can remove specific ones using tr: cat root.tdh | tr -d '\015' Would remove all ^M chars from the output... see http://www.encypher.net/ascii/ for an ascii table. (Sorry for the poor contrast, must fix that some time) -Colin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
