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sed awk tr etc

Posted 01-15-2013 at 06:33 AM by NullTerminator
Updated 01-18-2013 at 06:54 AM by NullTerminator (add sed cmd for non prinitng char)
A couple sample to strip unreadable characters from a binary file
Code:
# Translate junk characters into newlines while squeezing
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt

# Translate and discard single character lines
C:\Temp>tr -sc '[\011\012\015\040-\176]' \n < blob_of_data.txt | awk "length($0) > 1"
# replace a bad character in a file
0xa0 is a 'non breaking space' that appears often when...
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