Thanks for your help. In fact, the files I work with are binary file which contains alphanumériques characters which I want to recuperate . The adequate solution to keep only the text editable is :
perl -pi -e 's/[^[:graph:]\n\s]//g' Myfile Have a good day. Franck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]