I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has morphed a bit. Maybe the simplest and oldest solution is the `tr -d' command. See `man tr'.
On 07/20/2015 04:56 AM, 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
