Removing junk characters from text files?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> And of course dos2unix is a handy utility too.

Sure it is, but you want to be careful. I've come across two utilities, 
identically namesd 'dos2unix' and present on various different Unices, 
that purport to do the same thing. One of them quietly munged the 
'standard' MS-DOS 8-bit characters to ISO Latin-1. This is exactly not 
what we wanted.

tr may have arcane syntax, but it only does exactly what you ask of it.

  Stewart

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