Shell Programming and Scripting

It works fine too when "*" are embedded:

Code:

$ echo "DM**&^*$#)(*CT" | sed 's/DM.*CT/DMCT/'                                   
DMCT

Please clarify.

Hey friends,
great it worked.
But only one problem is yet to be solved.
I have used following two suggestions given by you

Code:

/usr/bin/tr -d '[:punct:]' < file > file.nospecialchar

and

Code:

/usr/bin/tr -d '[:punct:]' <test>

Its very well working but its replacing special characters by space. I want to remove that space without disturbing other spaces present in file. But special attention is to be given that, it shouldnt even touch other spaces in entire file as it will disturb entire machine readable file. it just have to remove space got generated between DM and CT



e.g.

Code:

DM*&%#^()*%*$|\ / ?CT

expected output

Code:

DMCT

where as existing solution is giving o/p as
DM CT (space is not expected).

Thank you for taking pains.

@anushree.a: can you please clarify why the sed solution I suggested doesn't work for you ?

Dear Jlliagre,
I think it did not work because neighter pattern of special character is fixed nor number of special character is fixed. What is fixed is only characters DM and CT. everything appearing between them we have to remove it including spaces
in one case it can be DM^%%^$*^()*&\|/ *^CT
in other case it can be anything like DM^%#%$|?\?\%CT

I think your script can work only if provided special character pattern is fixed.


Please suggest.

Did you care trying my script ?
It certainly removes spaces and whatever characters appears between DM and CT, including spaces.

Have you tried the solution which I have posted ?

Dear Jlliagre,
I am extremely sorry. Your solution wasn't wrking because I didnt make necessary changes in input file while testing.
I regrett. I apologize.

Now I have tested it and results are exactly as expected.

Sorry to trouble you and others.
Thank you very very much for the help.