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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: nate AT cartsys DOT com, Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
        Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:09:31 +0000
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Subject: Re: Man pages (was Re: Ispell and pipes)
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Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> wrote:

> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > > there's always the little tool
> > > that knows how to remove backspace-character sequences from a text file.
> > 
> > Last night I wrote one in a few minutes just to test if all works
> > like I think.
> 
> What about--
> 
> (gnu shutils echo)
> echo -e "s/.\b//g" >fix.sed
> sed -f fix.sed <page.1 >page.txt
> 
> What do they say?  "Those who don't use sed are doomed to re-invent
> it"?  ;-)

Hmm... I think a perl user will say it can be done in one line ;-)

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