Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 14:44:24 -0800 From: Jim <jconner@enterit.com>(by way of Jim <jconner@enterit.com>) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [mail_lists] Re: dos2unix??? Message-ID: <200304152145.h3FLjmBT002682@quasi.concon.homeip.net>
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On Tuesday 15 April 2003 14:39, Matthew Seaman wrote:
perl -p -i -e 'tr/\x92\x93//d' filename
if you want to make a back up of the original file then:
perl -pi.bak -e 'tr/\x92\x93//d' filename
| On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:39:06PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote:
| > May I leverage off this post to see if anyone has a solution to
| > scraping away thoseflea-bitten Losedows '0x92' and '0x93'
| > characters and replacing with a simpl apostroph (').
| >
| > If there is already somethng hacked, I would be greatly obliged
| > for a pointer.
|
| In web pages? You can fix up such html entities with tidy (ports
| www/tidy or www/tidy-devel) --- the tidy-devel port has the '-bare'
| option that appears to do exactly the sort of transformation you
| require. See http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#bare
|
| Cheers,
|
| Matthew
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- Jim
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