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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users What my puzzle file!, How to remove special characters ?? Post 302786639 by arm_naja on Thursday 28th of March 2013 12:05:30 AM
Old 03-28-2013
What my puzzle file!, How to remove special characters ??

My application generate file but it have special characters in these file.
I would like to clear special characters by vi editor and not use
Code:
cat /dev/null > to_file

I try to remove characters manually, but I'm can not!

root@MyHost /tmp> ls -l puzzle.txt
Code:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system            3 Mar 28 10:37 puzzle.txt
root@MyHost /tmp> 
root@MyHost /tmp> cat -v puzzle.txt
๏ปฟroot@MyHost /tmp>

-- After remove it by vi (I press x for 3 times because it have 3 char right?) --
Code:
root@MyHost /tmp> wc puzzle.txt
       1       0       1 puzzle.txt
root@MyHost /tmp> cat -v puzzle.txt

root@MyHost /tmp> ls -l puzzle.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system            1 Mar 28 10:55 puzzle.txt
root@MyHost /tmp>

How I remove special chars???
you can try from attachement [NO Virus]

Last edited by vbe; 04-08-2013 at 09:32 AM..
 

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