Replace non-US characters in a wrapped (streamed) file

[Kellogg Unix Team]

Hello,

I am looking for a command/script to replace some non-US characters with US ascii character set in a "streamed" file (wc -l steamed_file gives 0 lines). I was thinking of using sed but found that sed works on "complete input lines" and in my case, my file has no complete line.

I would prefer to use hex values of these non-US characters because then I won't have to escape them in my script. Some of these characters (I have about 60 of them) are -
À (0xC0) replace with A
à (0xE0) replace with a
Û (0xDB) replace with U
á (0xE1) replace with a

I also need the resultant file to be streamed.

Would really appreciate if I can use existing unix commands to achieve this.

Thanks in advance
...Manje

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

cat infile | tr "[\300\340\333\341]" "[AaUa]" > outfile

[Kellogg Unix Team]

Wow, no wonder you are an olympian!!

Thanks a lot!
...Manjeet

[Kellogg Unix Team]

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