* [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?
If you know the idividual control chars you want to remove (eg ctrl m), you
can do something like this in vi:
ESC
:%s/{ctrl v}{ctrl m}//gc
or
:%s/{ctrl v}{ctrl m}//g for no confirmation messages
(Stuff in {} you actually type).
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