Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:42:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dos2unix??? Message-ID: <20030417194231.GA16675@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030415223439.GF95873@tao.thought.org> References: <200304151041.57911.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030415180909.GC72565@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> <20030415203906.GB95873@tao.thought.org> <20030415213930.GA51229@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20030415223439.GF95873@tao.thought.org>
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On 2003-04-15 15:34, Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:39:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>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
>
> Thanks for the pointer Matthew. Looks like the devel vers
> will do the job....
>
> PS: with 'tr' I would havde to run it more than once...
Or pass arguments like:
$ tr '\222\223' "''"
:)
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