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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Convert Windows Metacharacters to Regular Text Post 302472630 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 17th of November 2010 04:59:37 PM
Old 11-17-2010
Here is a solution that uses bash arrays (easier to extend for other chars you find - like A9 for the copyright symbol).

Code:
#!/bin/bash
src=(85 92 93 94 A9)
dest=("..." \' \" \" "(c)")
for((i=0;i<${#src[@]};i++)) {
   SEDSTR="${SEDSTR};$(printf "s/%c/%s/" $(echo -e \\x${src[i]}) ${dest[i]})"
}
sed -i $SEDSTR myfile.txt

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 11-17-2010 at 06:12 PM.. Reason: Fix formatting
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