tr to remove ^L

[DebiJo]

I need to add a line to a script that will strip out the ^L that seems to prefix some of the lines of a report. I tried tr -d '\014'.... command.... but it removes the entire line. The one with the \015 worked great for the ^M. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
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[kHz]

Control L is FF which is decimal 12.

Control M that you mentioned is CR which is decimal 13. You said \015 worked for this, but decimal 15 is SI (shift in).

Maybe I am missing something.

 

[plamb]

the "\" indicates it is an octal number not decimal

CR Crtl-M \015 decimal 13
FF Crtl-L \014 decimal 12

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you tried sed for this?

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

cat /path/to/yourfile |sed -e 's/^L//g' > file_wihout_ctrl_L

to have '^L' as one char at command line or in vi editor :
type first CTRL-V (as comination of CTRL key and v )and then type CTRL-L (as comination of CTRL key and l )

Ali

 

[DebiJo]

Ended up being a typo.... " instead of ' .

Thanks for all the responses!!!
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