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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing asterix (*) from flat files Post 302141248 by lorcan on Thursday 18th of October 2007 08:54:47 AM
Old 10-18-2007
Try

Code:
sed "s/\*//g" < input_file > output_file

 

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apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor

apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)									      apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)

NAME

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor - This application is part of ( apertium )

       This tool is part of the apertium machine translation architecture: http://apertium.org.

SYNOPSIS

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor data_dir translation_dir input_file output_file

DESCRIPTION

       apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor is the application responsible for preprocessing the training corpus for the lexical selector training.

OPTIONS

       This tool currently has no options.

FILES

       These are the kinds of files and directories used with this tool:

       data_dir the path to the linguistic data to use.

       translation_dir the translation direction to use.

       input_file contains a large corpus in raw format.

       output_file The file which gets the preprocessed corpus.

SEE ALSO

       apertium-gen-lextorbil(1),     apertium-gen-lextormono(1),     apertium-gen-lextor-eval(1),     apertium-gen-stopwords-lextor(1),     aper-
       tium-gen-wlist-lextor(1), apertium-gen-wlist-lextor-translation(1), apertium-lextor(1).

BUGS

       Lots of...lurking in the dark and waiting for you!

AUTHOR

       (c) 2005,2006 Universitat d'Alacant / Universidad de Alicante. All rights reserved.

								    2006-12-12				      apertium-preprocess-corpus-lextor(1)
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