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Created November 11, 2009 18:00
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Remove non-alphanumeric (+ whitespace) chars from a file
perl -e "s/[^a-zA-Z0-9 \n\t\r\f\v]/1/g;" -pi.save $(find word_10MB.txt -type f)
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