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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Vi special character Post 302791929 by Yoda on Tuesday 9th of April 2013 12:45:32 PM
Old 04-09-2013
Use printf inside sed to create a form feed and remove it:
Code:
sed 's/'"$(printf '\014')"'$//g' inputfile > outputfile

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

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