Eliminating binary from a text file

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 20/07/15 11:56, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage system). The
> files are of different formats, although I can usually assume they
> contain spaces. The files are structured as lines.
>
> Every once in a while, the lovely destruction (ahm....storage) system
> inserts binary garbage to the file. I wish to fix the files by
> removing the cancer without leaving any leftovers. That is, I want to
> lose partial lines.
>
> I tried using grep with all sorts of keys, but it did not do the trick.
> strings catches too little - it leaves partial lines.
> Is there an elegant  way to  do the trick line-wise?
>
> Thanks
> Orna
http://debugmo.de/2009/04/bgrep-a-binary-grep/

Shachar
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