Try piping the result through tr. Use character classes to include all of the characters you do want, or to exclude all of the ones you don't. From a quick readthrough of the man page, I came up with this: tr -d '[:graph:]' You *might* be able to use: tr -cd '[:print:]' however I don't think so. Regards, Luke On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Christopher Moore wrote: > Hello, > I improvised on Keith Wanton's idea for using lynx to retrieve the weather. > The following script is very simple, but it gave me a chance to learn > something about awk. I named it wx and type > wx <zipcode> to obtain the current weather. It should work great with > speakup except I need to figure out how to remove the degree symbol from > the temp and dew point. > > Enjoy! > > ##### wx xcript below this line ##### > #!/bin/sh > # The following script uses lynx to retrieve the > # weather for the entered zipcode. > # A simple awk program selects the fields to be displayed. > lynx -dump http://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=$1 $2|\ > awk ' \ > /Observed/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4} > /Temperature/ {print $1 " " $2} > /Humidity/ {print $1 " " $2} > /Dew Point/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3} > /Wind/ {print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $4}' > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
