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

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:11 30/01/02 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > 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.

Did the trick admirably.

Cheers


Steve


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