From: Brehl, Blake (Blake.Brehl@anritsu.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 18:53:53 EST
Turn's out the ^L was a case where 2 characters are displayed in the
same position. Used the "col" command to strip them out.
cat oldfile | col -b > newfile
Best Regards, Blake
-----Original Message-----
am having a brain cramp.
have an ASCII file with some lines beginning with ^L, want to strip them
out (just the ^L 's ).
been trying sed `s!\^L!!g` oldfile > newfile
any suggestions?
Best Regards, Blake
Blake Brehl
Sys Admin/DBA
Anritsu Company United States
Morgan Hill, CA
Tru64UNIX V5.1A sp1
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