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by **Iskandar** » Sun, 04 Apr 1999 04:00:00

hi there,

Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the ^H
sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .
Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?

Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

thanks.

Iskandar

by **Michael Wa** » Sun, 04 Apr 1999 04:00:00

>hi there,

>Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
>some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the ^H
>sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .
>Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?
>Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

All you asked above is all possible. But if you state what you want to
do, rather the means that you want to use, the answer would be a lot
simple: man find | col -b > find.text
--
Michael Wang
http://www.mindspring.com/~mwang

by **Ken Pizzi** » Sun, 04 Apr 1999 04:00:00

>Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
>some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the ^H
>sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .

:%s/.^H//g

Quote:>Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?

Yes

Quote:>Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

sed 's/.^H//g'

In both cases above the ^H should be replaced by a literal
Control-H character. This must (in vi) or might (depending
on your shell and your stty settings) be accomplished by
typing Control-V Control-H.

As someone else pointed out, "col" might be a more suitable
solution to your problem, however.

--Ken Pizzini

by **Michel Tuga** » Tue, 06 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
> some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the ^H
> sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .
> Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?
> Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

#
# man like BSD:
# stop at each page (more)
# go to vi from more (readable text)
#
alias sman=_sman
function _sman {
man $* | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | uniq > /tmp/sman$$
more /tmp/sman$$
/bin/rm -f /tmp/sman$$

Quote:}

--
Michel Tugaye

by **lenlut** » Fri, 09 Apr 1999 04:00:00

or is it
:g/^V^H/s////g

> > Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
> > some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the ^H
> > sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .

> > Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?
> > Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

> #
> # man like BSD:
> # stop at each page (more)
> # go to vi from more (readable text)
> #
> alias sman=_sman
> function _sman {
> man $* | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | uniq > /tmp/sman$$
> more /tmp/sman$$
> /bin/rm -f /tmp/sman$$
> }

> --
> Michel Tugaye

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by **Kosh Banerj** » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I suspect that the original poster was referring to man pages when wanting to
remove ^H. The simplest solution is:

man (something) | col -b > something.txt

I am not 100% sure that the proper option to use with the "col" command is
"-b". Please consult the man page.

> or is it
> :g/^V^H/s////g

> > > Q1: i need to find out the vi command needed to change all occurences of
> > > some character followed by a backspace to nothing. that is to remove the
> ^H
> > > sequence created by the following command man find > find.txt .

> > > Q2:can sed perform the same task as vi?
> > > Q3:what would be the command also for sed ?

> > #
> > # man like BSD:
> > # stop at each page (more)
> > # go to vi from more (readable text)
> > #
> > alias sman=_sman
> > function _sman {
> > man $* | sed -e 's/.^H//g' | uniq > /tmp/sman$$
> > more /tmp/sman$$
> > /bin/rm -f /tmp/sman$$
> > }

> > --
> > Michel Tugaye

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Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt

Need to find vi command to remove ^H from command man find > find.txt