How to delete the ^H^H characters in a file?
<p>I am doing a show run > filename to save some cisco configs. It works fine, but on the save config there are those non printable characters that are annoying me.</p>

<p>It is showing in vim (also on other programs like kate) in this way: </p>

<pre><code>aaa new-model
 --More-- ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H        ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H!
!
aaa authentication login default local
</code></pre>

<p>Instead of</p>

<pre><code>aaa new-model
!
!
aaa authentication login default local
</code></pre>

<p>According to wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#.5EH" rel="nofollow">here</a>), this character represents the backpsace keypress, and programs such as 'less' present it in the proper readable form.
I don't know if this can be fixed on the origin, or disabled in vim at least, any suggestion is welcome.</p>