Special characters

Shell Programming and Scripting
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When I open a file in vi, I see the following characters:

\302\240

Can someone explain what these characters mean. Is it ASCII format? I need to trim those characters from a file.

I am doing the following:

tr -d '\302\240'

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I got it. It is an octal representation of "�*" (not including double quotes)

What is the best ways to remove this octal character from a file?

2

Usually vi does not put any characters automatically , so I guess you did some thing
in your ~/.vimrc file. Better check your configurations.