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<TITLE>RE: [X-Unix] text file parsing?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Use the "strings" command in your script to remove binary data.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Use "tail" and "head" commands to work trim from or to the end or beginning.</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>If it is indeed UTF-8 (or any other encoding) use textutil to change the encoding (or even the format) as you like. (Only available on OS X, so this would make your script non-portable to other Unixish OSes.</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Use sed or awk for other text manipulations. Just get back to this list with specific questions, because sed and even more so awk can be tricky. Of course you can also ask about the other commands if the man pages don't help you much (which I sometimes find the case for me.)</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Björn</FONT>
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