On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:48:51AM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Does the following do what you need:
>
> # cat xx > clean.txt
>
> All those special things should be removed.
Nope. They are interpreted by the terminal, that's why they 'are
removed' when you cat to the console. After your command, xx and
clean.txt are identical.
florin
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