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Article #1417Re: How to strip edit characters
From: Jeff Beadles
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 03:51
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 1990 03:51
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In <6665@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> ejmag@aplcen (Magnusson Eric 859-4680) writes: ... >Is there a "shell" way to remove the backspace characters, yet retain >the text in its final form? ... Well, for systems that have it, the "col" command works just fine. Use it as a pipeline, ie: col -b < input_yuch_o_file > neat_o_file -Jeff -- Jeff Beadles jeff@onion.pdx.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!nosun!qiclab!onion!jeff From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: How to strip edit characters Message-ID: <1990Oct6.035130.8381@onion.pdx.com> Date: 6 Oct 90 03:51:30 GMT References: <6665@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Little to none Lines: 16