Eliminating binary from a text file

[Boruch Baum]

I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has
morphed a bit. Maybe the simplest and oldest solution is the `tr -d'
command. See `man tr'.

On 07/20/2015 04:56 AM, 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
> 
> 
> 
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