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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove special characters? Post 302830821 by wisecracker on Tuesday 9th of July 2013 02:25:47 PM
Old 07-09-2013
I get a completely different result to you using the same command AFTER copying and pasting:-

Code:
Last login: Tue Jul  9 19:07:11 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> echo 'ADDÜL' |hexdump -C
00000000  41 44 44 c3 9c 4c 0a                              |ADD..L.|
00000007
AMIGA:barrywalker~>

Notice I have 2 binary values, c3 and 9c, so it makes for a difficult cure...

However, IF, you can guarantee a single constant byte value you could try a derivative of this idea out:-

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ipulation.html
 

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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
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