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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed replacing specific characters and control characters by escaping Post 302631399 by ijustneeda on Friday 27th of April 2012 09:42:57 AM
Old 04-27-2012
But the concern is if it removed other characters or did something you did not expect to, there was no way to test this Smilie

---------- Post updated at 06:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:30 AM ----------

ok thanks, may be that is true this regexp is correct and we can excape normal and control characters both to be safe Smilie

Code:
echo "abc- cde fg.hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg / hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg/hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg \ hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg\hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg'hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg ' hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg % hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg % hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg = hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg _ hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg_hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg , hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg,hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg : hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg:hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg ( hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg(hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg ) hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg ? hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg @ hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg@hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg + hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg+hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg * hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg*hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg $ hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg$hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg ! hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"
echo "abc- cde fg!hi" | sed -e "s/[\.\/\%'=:\(\)\`_\"\@\;\+\*\#\$\?\!]/ /g"


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