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RE: col missing from cygwin
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: col missing from cygwin
- From: Arjen Bax <arjen dot bax at cmg dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:39:11 +0200
Aloha,
Brad Barber [mailto:bradb@atg.com] wrote on
Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:37 PM:
> The unprintables are backspaces for enhancing the screen display of
> the page. For straight ascii text, Unix in a Nutshell
> recommends using
> man find | col -b
> This is what I use on Unix systems. It works well.
It may be a little off topic, but you may use the following one-liner
instead of 'col':
perl -wpe 's/.\010//g'
HTH,
Arjen Bax
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