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07-03-2013, 01:22 PM	#16
jpollard Senior Member Registered: Dec 2012 Location: Washington DC area Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Slackware Posts: 4,912 Rep:	Faster to use "tr". sed being a line oriented edit Code: tr '\xfe' ':' <input >output Should convert the funny character into a ":" character.

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