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Re: specifying octal characters to tr


From: Randy Yates
Subject: Re: specifying octal characters to tr
Date: 21 Dec 2004 11:27:28 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence)

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Randy Yates <randy.yates@sonyericsson.com> wrote:
> > tr -d \240 <doc_org.tex >doc.tex
> 
> The shell processes one level of backslash-escaping.  Try this:
> tr -d \\240 <doc_org.tex >doc.tex

Doh! How many times must I be reminded?! Thanks Paul,
-- 
Randy Yates
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
randy.yates@sonyericsson.com, 919-472-1124


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