Hi, Try $cat file | col -b > file.plain.txt
This is also great way to transform man output to plain text. $ man date | col -b > man.date.txt Hope this helps, Bye, nram [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-----------------------------------------------------+ |Linux Now | Ramesh Natarajan | |http://www.kernel.org | http://nram.virtualAve.net | +-----------------------------------------------------+ In a world without fences, who needs Gates? _______________________________________________________ Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. -- Clive Barnes ---Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > > catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you > > suggest anything, please? > > > > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM. > > recode ibm-pc:l1 <original file> newfile > > Johann > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3201 Pietermaritzburg | > | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South > Africa) | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his > courts with praise. Be thankful unto him, and bless > his name." Psalms 100:4 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
