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Hello everyone!

I'm having some problems trying to translate a text file.

I've found some TR and SED commands but doesnt work exactly as I need.

The point is:

1. Replace all the letters with accent of a text file, like this: Ã>A Á>A Õ>o
2. Replace all the special characters with a blank space, like this: $>' ' #>' '
3. I can't generate an output file, i need to do this 'translation' in the same file, without another one!

I'm a lil bit lost with this situation!

Can you help me?

Than you so much, Ulysses from Brazil.

How is the original file encoded? (ascii, utf-8, unicode, etc..)

What is your locale set to?

Which/whose sed/tr are you using (ie OS vendor)

How is the original file encoded? (ascii, utf-8, unicode, etc..)
UNIX-ANSI
What is your locale set to?

Code:

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Which/whose sed/tr are you using (ie OS vendor)

I tried these:

Code:

perl -e "s/search_str/replacement_str/g;" -pi test.dat

(but this command is per word, not perr letter/character)

Code:

tr -d '[:punct:]' < teste.dat > teste.dat

(but this generate another file...)

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any suggestion?

Moderator's Comments:

My suggestions: 1. Please use code tags; 2. Please don't "bump" posts. This is a forum, not a drive-thru-<...>; 3. Try "googling" w/ anything. Use a descriptive subject for better results.

Perl incorporates the tr command itself if you have to avoid temporary files, this is the equivalent of a series of single character substitution regexes.
search for "tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds" in

Code:

perldoc perlop

Why can't you create a temp file and move it back anyway?