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Replacing all occurrences of non-printable character in a file using its ascii value

I have a file myFile.xmlwhich I want to run the xmllintcommand on for proper formatting.

It contains the ASCII character 26 (substitute char) because of which xmllint command is failing with parser error.

How can I replace all occurrences of this character with blank in this file?

Solution

  • The following worked:

    tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' < file-with-binary-chars > clean-file

    referred from here:

    ascii-control-characters