Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:57:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleaning a text file Message-ID: <19990215185722.A21817@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <19990216103740.60271@welearn.com.au>; from "Sue Blake" on Tue Feb 16 10:37:40 GMT 1999 References: <19990215201056.19929@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.990215010943.20451F-100000@dsinw.com> <19990216095232.J2207@lemis.com> <19990216103740.60271@welearn.com.au>
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In the last episode (Feb 16), Sue Blake said: > The problem is that I don't know which funny characters exist in the > file, if any. I want to find out what they are, so I can search for > them and eyeball them before killing them. How about something like grep "^[ -~]" file.txt That will print any lines that have characters outside the standard printable ascii set. Then you can look at the oddball letters and figure out appropriate replacement characters. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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