Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:47:56 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleaning a text file Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990215174647.16917A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <19990216103740.60271@welearn.com.au>
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Sue Blake wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 09:52:32AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 15 February 1999 at 1:10:36 -0800, rick hamell wrote: > > > > > >> Also, this file has some very long lines which would get truncated > > >> or unexpectedly wrapped when sent as email. And if there is something > > >> strange, I have to read it and guess what it should have been. > > >> > > >> Maybe someone will come up with something for this particular case. > > >> I can't believe there's not some little untility for this that's been > > >> hanging around unloved for years. > > > > > > Oy! Ok... how does Greg reformat all those emails? > > > > With Emacs. I have a collection of macros which I'm constantly > > changing to catch up with new tricks that mailers discover. > > > > To Sue's original question: it depends on what your text looks like. > > tr(1) will remove characters if you ask it to. > > If I knew which characters were there (so I could ask tr to remove > them) I would have already removed them with my text editor. > > > fmt(1) might be useful for wrapping lines. > > I don't see the long line lengths as a big problem at this stage, but > fmt might be useful later. > > The problem is that I don't know which funny characters exist in the > file, if any. I want to find out what they are, so I can search for > them and eyeball them before killing them. Run the file through vis and then search the output for \'s Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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