Re: Editing a text file with sed

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Joe Hart wrote:
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> I appreciate the answer, I didn't even know about the fmt command until now.  
> It does seem to work in the example, but not on the real file(s) that I am 
> working with.  Something makes me think that these files have some very 
> strange characters in them, but they don't seem to show up when I cat the 
> file.

Try the 'strings' command for removing non-printable characters.
(Package: binutils)

HTH,

Johannes
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