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Old 05-12-2009
how to remove weird symbols
Hi my file is suffering from some weird text symbols like a question mark inside of a square. I don't know how to remove these. I tried to remove UTF accents with command
sed -e 's/^[ ]*Width:[ ]*//' -e 's/[ ]*$//'`
but no use
. Could u guyz plz help me.
# 2  
Old 05-12-2009
this what i used to do to remove such weird characters

- go to vim
- then go to that particular character press "ga" ( will show you hex / octal values )
- close the file.
- perl -pi -e 's/\x(hex value)//g' <filename>

this may not be the best way to do what you wanted but it works for me.
# 3  
Old 05-12-2009
It showing error
syntax error near unexpected token new line
# 4  
Old 05-12-2009
Can you tell what does the below command o/p

Code:
sed -n "l" filename

cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
# 5  
Old 05-12-2009
Hi
I solved it
Thanx
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