cleans up text files by removing non-ascii

non-ascii-del

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# This script cleans up text files by removing non-ascii
# Geoffrey McClinsey

set -e

echo what file has the non-ascii text? #include path to file if not in same location as script
read dirty

echo -e "\v"

echo what would you like to name the clean file #if no path is given, will output to script location
read clean

echo -e "\v"

tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' < "$dirty" > "$clean"

read -r -p "Do you want to keep the original? [Y/n] " response
response=${response,,}

if [[ $response =~ ^(NO|No|no|N|n)$ ]];
then
    rm "$dirty"
else
    exit 0
fi

# Need to check to make sure filename does not already exist to prevent overwrite
# If you keep original filename as clean filename, the file will be empty (complete data loss)???
# Limit response to a variant of yes/no, error out on any other answer