Re: 8-bit safe text utils?
>-Eric House <ehouse@eng.sun.com>
>
> The words include a character (octal 0267) that indicates hyphenation.
> I want to pull it out. If in the bash shell (either running in emacs
> via shell mode or in xterm; it doesn't matter) I type
>
> # tr -d "\267" < woor-den.max
>
> tr does nothing. But if I save the same command as a bash shell
> script and execute it I get the desired result.
This may not be too helpful, but It Works For Me:
[olet@armadillo] ~> locale
LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_ALL=
[olet@armadillo] ~> cat test.text
This is·a test.
[olet@armadillo] ~> tr -d "\267" < test.text
This isa test.
[olet@armadillo] ~> tr --version
tr (GNU textutils) 1.22
--
Making main a void function isn't really bad. The only drawback
is that the compiler is free to generate instructions that launch
nuclear missiles (if you have the necessary hardware), drown your
gold fish or turn your keyboard into a hungry polar bear.
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