Awk, sed and grep unable to handle special character in a file

[dstxaix]

Hi,

I have a file with many records of the same length. One type of record contains some special characters. I get it from another system. When I try to remove some unwanted records from the file, I am facing a problem. The problem is, that AWK thinks the special character is teh end of teh record. This file comes fro a mainframe and I am assuming they are sending some packed fields causing this trouble. Can I somehow get around this? The problem is grep, sed and Awk all behave teh same way when they see teh special characters.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

[PHV]

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