Removing certain characters in a file

bombcan · #1 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Hi

I have a file that has semicolons in it (

is there a way to just remove these in the file. Example

name: Joe Smith; group: Group1;
name: Mary White; group: Group2;

in2nix4life · #2 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

You can use 'sed' to remove all the ';' from the file:

sed -i.bkup -e 's/;//g' file.txt

Hope this helps.

bombcan · #3 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Thanks I forgot all about sed!

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