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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Replacing hex characters Post 302522422 by ctsgnb on Sunday 15th of May 2011 08:15:28 AM
Old 05-15-2011
Code:
sed 's/[^[:print:]][^[:print:]]*/ /g' infile

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Code:
$ cat tst
05��Oct��2010   1.31��
06��Oct��2010   1.32��
07��Oct��2010   1.31��
$ sed 's/[^[:print:]][^[:print:]]*/ /g' tst
05 Oct 2010 1.31
06 Oct 2010 1.32
07 Oct 2010 1.31
$

---------- Post updated at 02:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:05 PM ----------

Tested on FreeBSD 8.2 :

Code:
$ tr -sc '[:rune:]' ' ' <tst
05 Oct 2010     1.31
06 Oct 2010     1.32
07 Oct 2010     1.31

 

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