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# 1  
Old 06-22-2005
How to strip apostrophe from a file

I am trying to remove or replace various extraneous characters from a file so that subsequent processes work correctly. The characters that is giving me trouble is the apostrophe '.

The command I 'm trying is
sed 's/\'//g' ${IN_WRK_DIR}/file1 > ${IN_WRK_DIR}/file2
in a Korn script on HP Unix.

I do need to retain other nonalpha-numeric characters.
# 2  
Old 06-22-2005
Check out this URL...it had helped me sometime back. I came across something similiar.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=496910

Vino
# 3  
Old 06-22-2005
Sometimes tr is easier to use than sed for single characters:
Code:
cat filename | tr -s "\'" ' '

# 4  
Old 06-22-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Sometimes tr is easier to use than sed for single characters:
Code:
cat filename | tr -s "\'" ' '

<UUOC police>
tr -s "\'" ' ' < filename
</UUOC police>
# 5  
Old 06-22-2005
Thanks for the suggestions

tr works like a charm. As always syntax is everything.
# 6  
Old 06-22-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
<UUOC police>
tr -s "\'" ' ' < filename
</UUOC police>
Actually, I don't think so: < opens the file and reads it. So does does cat. tr uses stdin no matter. If it were sed I'd agree.
# 7  
Old 06-22-2005
But in using cat you cat have to make fork and exec system calls for the new process, both are expensive calls, by using < to redirect stdin you do not need to make these calls and so as vergsh99 pointed out it would be a UUOC.

Why do you think it would be any different if it were sed?
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