On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Geoffrey Myers <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > comments would be appreciated. > If all you're doing is filtering stdin to stdout and deleting a range of characters, it seems that tr would be a faster tool: cat foo.txt | tr -d '\000-\008\013-\037\177-\377' > foo-cleaned.txt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general