Special character in my file

Ryan2786 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007

I have a special character in my file. It displays as a '#' sign but when I do this command I do not find the line.

fgrep 'G#ant' file1

I want to replace the special character with another value but I need to know what character it really is. Any ideas on how to replace this '#' value with a space. I tried

sed 's/G#ant/G ANT/g' file1> file2

but it does not work.
thanks for any help.
Ryan

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007

Try

Code:

sed 's/G.ant/G ANT/g' file1> file2

You can use 'od' to find out what the character is.

Cheers,
ZB

Ryan2786 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007

Thanks. the sed command worked great.

how do I use the od command to get the hex values for that line?
thanks.
Ryan

vgersh99 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-05-2007

'man od' yields:

Code:

     -x    Interpret words in hex.  This is equivalent to -t x2.

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