Re: [Sheflug] Dumbass question of the week #2

[Dave Mitchell <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sorry that I can't come up with anything more mentally stimulating than 
> this but I'd like to be able to create a simple plain ASCII text file out 
> of a Winblows .pab address book file.
> 
> I'm assuming this can be done relatively simply by piping the output of 
> 'cat' through 'grep' or something similar. Could one of you fine upstanding 
> people give me a clue as to what the command line should be to strip all 
> the non-printable characters out, or at least those below 0x20h?

'strings' is usually a good bet.

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