minix man page for ascii

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ASCII(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ASCII(1)

NAME
ascii - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file
SYNOPSIS
ascii [-n] [file]
OPTIONS
-n Extract the lines containing nonASCII characters
EXAMPLES
ascii file >outf # Write all the ASCII lines on outf ascii -n <file >outf # Write all the nonASCII lines on outf
DESCRIPTION
Sometimes a file contains some nonASCII characters that are in the way. This program allows the lines containing only ASCII characters to be grepped from the file. With the -n flag, the nonASCII lines are grepped. No matter whether the flag is used or not, the program returns an exit status of true if the file is pure ASCII, and false otherwise.
SEE ALSO
tr(1). ASCII(1)
Related Man Pages
ascii-xfr(1) - centos
tr(1) - v7
sort(1) - minix
ascii-xfr(1) - suse
isencrypt(3gen) - opensolaris
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