Script troubles.

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Chris Janicki wrote:

> How about some negative matching, like:
> 
> s/[^\t-~]//g
> 
> Replace anything that's not between a tab (ASCII #9) and a tilde (ASCII 
> #126).  Disclaimer: I don't know sed... maybe you have to escape the 
> brackets?
> 
> There's probably also some nomenclature for specifying an ASCII character 
> code, but I couldn't find it in my references.  Maybe consult the man 
> page for advanced regular expressions?

I think it's \142

Also look at the man page for tr.  tr is for translating characters.


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