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head, tail, cat, tac, nl, fmt, fold, tr, pr, basename, dirname, all described as Dogs of the Linux World.

Linux: EBCDIC to ASCII conversion

To convert from EBCDIC to ASCII:

$ iconv -f EBCDIC-US -t ASCII  EBCDICinput > ASCIIoutput

You can also use dd:

$ dd if=EBCDICinput of=ASCIIoutput conv=ascii

$ file -i EBCDICinput 
EBCDICinput : text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
$ file ASCIIoutput
ASCIIoutput: ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators

Though I've found the first one (iconv) will keep pipe characters as "|", and the second (dd) will have them as "!" in the ASCII output file.