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From: jeff@onion.pdx.com (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to strip edit characters
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.035130.8381@onion.pdx.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 03:51:30 GMT
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In <6665@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> ejmag@aplcen (Magnusson Eric 859-4680) writes:

...
>Is there a "shell" way to remove the backspace characters, yet retain
>the text in its final form?
...

Well, for systems that have it, the "col" command works just fine.  Use it as a
pipeline, ie:

col -b < input_yuch_o_file > neat_o_file


	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles	jeff@onion.pdx.com