ASCII(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ASCII(1)

NAME
       ascii - strip all the pure ASCII lines from a file

SYNOPSIS
       ascii [-n] [file]

OPTIONS
       -n     Extract the lines containing nonASCII characters

EXAMPLES
       ascii file >outf    # Write all the ASCII lines on outf

       ascii -n <file >outf
			   # Write all the nonASCII lines on outf

DESCRIPTION
       Sometimes  a file contains some nonASCII characters that are in the way.  This program allows the lines containing only ASCII characters to
       be grepped from the file.  With the -n flag, the nonASCII lines are grepped.  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.

SEE ALSO
       tr(1).

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