tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (02/05/91)
From the keyboard of bharat@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta):
:>>I suspect that you really want to remove any character followed by
:>>a control-H. This will also fix boldfacing done by overstriking.
:>
:>Save yourself the trouble. Some time ago, a program called ``pep'' was
:>posted to one of the .sources groups (don't know which one). This program
:>does a lot of things to ``clean'' text files, including taking out all of
:>the boldfacing and underlining w/o hurting your real text.
:
:For Unix users out there, there is an easier way. There is a program called
:'plain' that comes with most systems. Simply cat a file through it and
:it removes the underscores for you. I find it effective, especially if you
:don't want to worry about search/replace functions. This program is not
:as flexible (no doubt) as 'pep' but it might be more universally available.
Is there some reason why
foo | sed 's/.^H//g'
isn't good enough?
--tom
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