Re: removing rogue characters with sed

On 2007-05-27, waffle.horn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all,

Im trying to remove two types of rogue characters but I can't seem to
think of the correct solution with sed. The characters Im trying to
remove are the @ and ` characters shown below

-0.1000@xxxxxxx

-0.1000`-0.1000

I have tried...

sed 's/@/ /' FILENAME | sed 's/`/ /'

It doesn't seem to work for all instances.

Presumably, those instances are where there's more than one such
character on a line. For that you need to use global substitution
(and you can do it with a single call to sed):

sed -e 's/@/ /g' -e 's/`/ /g' FILENAME

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