delete non printable characters from file

alokjyotibal · #1 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008

i have a file which contains non printable characters
like enter,escape etc
i want to delete them from the file

ynilesh · #2 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008

Instead of cat you can try strings command which prints only printable character.

Code:

strings filename

- nilesh

jim mcnamara · #3 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008

Code:

tr -dc '[:print:]'  < oldfile> newfile

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