Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:42:56 +0100 From: F.Xavier Noria <fxn@isoco.com> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off topic - Utility or shell script needed (sed or perl?) Message-ID: <20020212194256.26254e44.fxn@isoco.com> In-Reply-To: <200202121815.g1CIFbU97380@dns2.s.bonet.se> References: <200202121815.g1CIFbU97380@dns2.s.bonet.se>
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:22:05 +0100
Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> wrote:
: I need a utlility or script to take out a complicated sequence of characters
: from several hendred text files.
:
: The characters includes <>?/()= and CR-LF, but are all ASCII.
If I understand correctly what needs to be done this would serve:
$ perl -pi -e 'tr,<>?/()=\015\012,,d' <file>
The file would be modified in place, if you'd want a backup of each one
use
$ perl -pi.bak -e 'tr,<>?/()=\015\012,,d' <file>
instead.
-- fxn
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