On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:37:09AM -0400, Jamie Forrest wrote: > 2) Search for all instances in file4 of funky special chars and > delete: Ôªø Steve has already helped you with this, but let me just point to the command 'tr'. I think tr -d -c [:print:] < file1 > file2 might do what you want. Best, Dylan