Script troubles.

[Chris Janicki]

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?

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Chris Janicki
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 4/5/01, 8:15:48 PM, John Whitfield <john_whitfield at email.com> wrote 
regarding Script troubles.:


> Hullo,

> I'm having trouble with a UNIX script (K-shell in HP-UX) and was hoping
> someone could help.  I've got a file I'm trying to send that has bad
> characters in it (ASCII 142).  I could write a C program, but I'm trying 
to
> avoid that.  Is there a way I could get a shell command to do something 
like
> this:

> cat infile.dat | sed "s/<<junk>>/<<blank>>/g" > outfile.dat

> The stream editor is easy enough, but I can't seem to get it to recognize
> the bad character.  Any ideas?

> AdvThanxance,
> John Whitfield


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