Question/review my script: removing bad chars from filenames
The task: remove undesirable characters from filenames.
Restrictions: Must use basic RE, base utilities (non-GNU) and /bin/sh (ash). No ksh, zsh, perl, etc.
Below is what I've come up with. It seems to work OK but I'm open to shorter, more efficient alternatives.
Inside the square brackets I've included an assortment of chars I'd like to remove. But I'm not able to get the following chars inside the square brackets so that they are also removed:
- square brackets
- single quotes (apostrophes)
One solution is to pipe into another sed. But I'd like to avoid that. My version of sed does not accept hex or octal.
Note: I have tried the "while read" approach but I found that the read builtin required filenames that do not contain illegal characters for variables, such as parentheses.
Hi Team,
I have a file a1.txt with data as follows.
dfjakjf...asdfkasj</EnableQuotedIDs><SQL><SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
The delimiter string: <SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
dlm="<SelectStatement modified='1' type='string'><!
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