Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-29 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Try col -b -- Brett Lymn Warning: The information contained in this email and any attached files is confidential to BAE

Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-26 Thread Pieter Verberne
Hi, does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Pieter

Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-26 Thread Calomel
Pieter, To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, use: :%s/^V^M//g The ^v is a CONTROL-V character and ^m is a CONTROL-M. When you type this, it will look like this: :%s/^M//g -- Calomel @ http://calomel.org Open Source Research and Reference On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at

Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-26 Thread Andreas Maus
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: Hi, Hi Pieter. does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Do you mean something like the ^M (\r) character ? I recommend using tr, e.g.: tr -d '\r' name_of_inputfile

Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-26 Thread djgoku
On 10/26/07, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Not sure if this is what you are wanting. tr '\r' '\n' inputfile outputfile more info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-26 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Peter, does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Sure, sed 's/[^A-Z ]//g' No kidding: Usually you want to specify which characters to allow, not which characters to remove (default deny policy). In case you want to allow more than