can you provide a example of a bad lines and how do you like them to look like after you fix them ?
-- Rabin On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage system). The > files are of different formats, although I can usually assume they contain > spaces. The files are structured as lines. > > Every once in a while, the lovely destruction (ahm....storage) system > inserts binary garbage to the file. I wish to fix the files by removing the > cancer without leaving any leftovers. That is, I want to lose partial lines. > > I tried using grep with all sorts of keys, but it did not do the trick. > strings catches too little - it leaves partial lines. > Is there an elegant way to do the trick line-wise? > > Thanks > Orna > > -- > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. > http://ladypine.org > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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