On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:

do:
sed -i -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//g' file-to-fix
To get rid of '^M'.
ET

Michael Havens writes:

cool..... vi opens it. I do not see any '^@' characters but I see a lot of
'^M' characters. I see a few '@' characters. So I do not need to worry
about those characters.... only the non ascii ones?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring <paul@opscode.com> wrote:

There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing
your problem, run `file -I <file_name>` and you'll see it's charset is
binary. I found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters
to find them). You can remove them with sed or tr and be on your happy way.

Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer
www.opscode.com
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*From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org <

plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
*To:* plug-discuss@phxlinux.org
*Subject:* I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip

properly
It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer
and when I try to open it with a text editor it complains about encoding.
here is the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip
Any ideas how to open it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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