Removing Control Characters from a File

Question

I want to delete all the control characters from my file using linux bash commands.

There are some control characters like EOF (0x1A) especially which are causing th

Answer 1

Instead of using the predefined [:cntrl:] set, which as you observed includes \n and \r, just list (in octal) the control characters you want to get rid of:

$ tr -d '\000-\011\013\014\016-\037' < file.txt > newfile.txt