Removing junk characters from text files?

Wed Feb 9 17:30:36 UTC 2005

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:14PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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.

And of course dos2unix is a handy utility too.  Not that it does
anything tr doesn't already do.  Just less arguments required when
running it.

Lennart Sorensen
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