Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:14:08 -0400 From: "Mark B." <mkbucc@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to delete non-ASCII chars in file Message-ID: <59f4cb420809050714i16ebe30bmd9f325592f05516e@mail.gmail.com>
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I have a text file that includes some non-ASCII characters
For example, opening the file in vi shows lines like this:
'easth_0.541716776378' 0 \xe2\x80\x98dire' 2
Is there a command-line tool I can use to delete these
characters? I tried:
cat f | tr -cd [:print:]
but this removes the newlines.
I also tried
cat f | sed "s/[^:print:]//g"
but it didn't remove the characters.
Thanks,
m
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