On 20/07/15 11:56, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda 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 http://debugmo.de/2009/04/bgrep-a-binary-grep/
Shachar
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