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From: pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad)
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Subject: Re: How to strip edit characters
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Date: 27 Sep 90 04:13:56 GMT
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In article <6665@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> ejmag@aplcen (Magnusson Eric 859-4680) writes:
>Is there a "shell" way to remove the backspace characters, yet retain

sed /.^H/s///g

You should be able to type in the ^H by typing <control-v><control-h>.
I had to fight with my terminal to keep it from sending ^?.

Perl solutions, anyone?  :-)

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