From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 8:41:23 1999 Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07126 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:41:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA26688; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:40:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 08:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Mark Ovens cc: Sue Blake , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cleaning a text file In-Reply-To: <36C92767.A11CEA13@uk.radan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > Dan Busarow wrote: > > Run the file through vis and then search the output for \'s > > > > Err, is this the ``vis'' described in chapter 6 of The Unix > Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike? Yep. Or at least it shares the same idea. The options are different, for instance there is no strip option. I've been adding vis (my own version) to every system I use for 14 years. I recently discovered it in FBSD when I tried it on a new box I hadn't added my own version to and -s didn't strip control characters. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message