Removing junk characters from text files?

[Kevin Cozens]

William O'Higgins wrote:

>I get to deal with text files from Windoze and Mac sources on a regular
>basis, and frequently they are filled with junk characters.
>
Fixing line endings (ie. removing ^M or changing ^M to ^J) can be done 
using the 'tr' command. It could also be used to remove your other 
unwanted characters if you knew what they were or just gave it a list of 
what you want to remove.

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