06-25-2008
Removing ^D and ^H characters
Hi,
I have a very huge file and it contains some unprintable characters like ^H and ^D.
If I try to remove using cat test1.ser| tr -d '\136 110'>newfile1 it is only removing ^and all spaces in the file.
How can I remove these characters (^D ^H) and keep my spaces as it is?
Thanks & Regards
Shesha
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
strings
STRINGS(1) BSD General Commands Manual STRINGS(1)
NAME
strings -- print the strings of printable characters in files
SYNOPSIS
strings [-a | --all] [-e encoding | --encoding=encoding] [-f | --print-file-name] [-h | --help] [-n number | --bytes=number | -number] [-o]
[-t radix | --radix=radix] [-v | --version] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
For each file specified, the strings utility prints contiguous sequences of printable characters that are at least n characters long and are
followed by an unprintable character. The default value of n is 4. By default, the strings utility only scans the initialized and loaded
sections of ELF objects; for other file types, the entire file is scanned. The strings utility is mainly used for determining the contents
of non-text files.
If no file name is specified as an argument, standard input is read.
The following options are available:
-a | --all
For ELF objects, scan the entire file for printable strings.
-e encoding | --encoding=encoding
Select the character encoding to be used while searching for strings. Valid values for argument encoding are:
s for single 7-bit-byte characters (ASCII, ISO 8859).
S for single 8-bit-byte characters.
l for 16-bit little-endian.
b for 16-bit big-endian.
L for 32-bit little-endian.
B for 32-bit big-endian.
The default is to assume that characters are encoded using a single 7-bit byte.
-f | --print-file-name
Print the name of the file before each string.
-h | --help
Print a usage summary and exit.
-n number | --bytes=number | -number
Print the contiguous character sequence of at least number characters long, instead of the default of 4 characters.
-o Equivalent to specifying -t o.
-t radix | --radix=radix
Print the offset from the start of the file before each string using the specified radix. Valid values for argument radix are:
d for decimal
o for octal
x for hexadecimal
-v | --version
Display a version identifier and exit.
EXIT STATUS
The strings utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
To display strings in /bin/ls use:
$ strings /bin/ls
To display strings in all sections of /bin/ln use:
$ strings -a /bin/ln
To display strings in all sections of /bin/cat prefixed with the filename and the offset within the file use:
$ strings -a -f -t x /bin/cat
SEE ALSO
ar(1), nm(1), objdump(1), ranlib, readelf(1), size(1)
HISTORY
The first FreeBSD strings utility appeared in FreeBSD v3. It was later discontinued in FreeBSD v5, when i386-only a.out format was dropped in
favor of ELF.
AUTHORS
The strings utility was re-written by S.Sam Arun Raj <samarunraj@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by S.Sam Arun Raj
<samarunraj@gmail.com>.
BSD
December 19, 2011 BSD