[Linux-disciples] help me write a shell script

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:05:19PM -0400, Dylan Paul Thurston wrote:
> 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.

Huh! I wasn't aware of :print:, but it
stands to reason. That's handy.

I think some of the characters he wants
to delete are printable.

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