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Question by Selvam
Submitted on 2/28/2004
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In between the text file, I have special characters like '^L'. How can i remove the above special character in between the text. Or Let me know how to find the special character in vi mode.

Answer by freeman_zhao
Submitted on 3/2/2004
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Answer by llagos@amr.cl
Submitted on 3/17/2004
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The same way You remove ^M. You can use either vi, or tr, to remove it. In vi, use substitute command but before pressing control-L, type a control-V first. Control-V allows for input of special chars. i.e., while entering the command: :s1,$/ (NOW Press control-V control-L) :s!,$/^L//g Second option: ^L is decimal 10, hex 0a, octal 012. Use tr with -d option: # cat filewithL \| tr -d "\012" > outputfile

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