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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to search for a character in files in a Directory & remove it Post 302647417 by rituparna_gupta on Monday 28th of May 2012 06:52:36 AM
Old 05-28-2012
Thanks a lot guruprasadpr, for the swift reply.

But I forgot to mention 1 thing Smilie - Sorry for the inconvenience
I need the # to be removed from lines which matches another string.

Lets says:
a.txt contains :
ritu|abc
#unix|def
unix|ghi

& b.txt contains :
#ritu|123
unix|567

the script needs to take an input for the main string - which will be "ritu" or "unix" in this case

So if the user enters "unix", the script should find all lines that contain "unix" in both the files & remove the "#" from it

So a.txt should now be :
ritu|abc
unix|def
unix|ghi

& b.txt should now be :
#ritu|123
unix|567

Could you please help on this
 

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