Dear Don,
Thanks for your reply.
I am running under ubuntu 18.04.
Let me specificially give an example for my case:
Let's say, string1 is keyword, string2 is .
I wish to remove dot sign when keyword is found in line:
I do:
Double quotes is also not sorting it out.
There is no below line in output file:
Of course there isn't. In the command: keyword and . are not just strings, they are regular expressions. And the regular expression . matches any single character. And globally replacing every character in a line with an empty string changes every line that contains keyword into an empty line.
To match a literal period character, try:
or:
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Search string1,
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MyFile
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