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Old 04-25-2007
anbu23 anbu23 is offline Forum Advisor  
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Removes ASCII control characters from 0 to 31 and 127

Code:
tr -d "\000-\037\177" < file


Code:
while read line 
do
       [[ -n "$( echo $line | tr -d "\000-\037\177" )" ]] && echo "$line"
done < file


Last edited by anbu23; 04-25-2007 at 06:33 AM.. Reason: Not read requirement properly