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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing punctuation marks with the help of sed Post 302914621 by RavinderSingh13 on Wednesday 27th of August 2014 02:40:14 AM
Old 08-27-2014
Hello ambijat,

Untested but you can try awk also for same.

Code:
echo ${a[i]} | awk '{gsub(/[[:punct:]]/,X,$0); gsub("pdf",".pdf",$0);print $0}'


Thanks,
R. Singh
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