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<H1>ascii(1)</H1>
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<H2>NAME</H2><PRE>
ascii - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>ascii</STRONG> [<STRONG>-n</STRONG>] [<EM>file</EM>]
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>-n</STRONG> Extract the lines containing nonASCII characters
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<H2>EXAMPLES</H2><PRE>
<STRONG>ascii</STRONG> <STRONG>file</STRONG> <STRONG>&gt;outf</STRONG> # Write all the ASCII lines on <EM>outf</EM>
<STRONG>ascii</STRONG> <STRONG>-n</STRONG> <STRONG>&lt;file</STRONG> <STRONG>&gt;outf</STRONG>
# Write all the nonASCII lines on <EM>outf</EM>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
Sometimes a file contains some nonASCII characters that are in the way.
This program allows the lines containing only ASCII characters to be
<EM>grepped</EM> from the file. With the <STRONG>-n</STRONG> flag, the nonASCII lines are <EM>grepped</EM>.
No matter whether the flag is used or not, the program returns an exit
status of true if the file is pure ASCII, and false otherwise.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
<STRONG><A HREF="../man1/tr.1.html">tr(1)</A></STRONG>.
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