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Old 03-16-2018
Unable to replace ^
Hi Team,

I have a file called aa.txt and here's the content

Code:
^aa^,^11^

We are unable to replace the "^" with '' using sed command.

Code:
sed 's/^//g' aa.txt

need the file as follows in AIX
aa,11

Please advise.
Last edited by vgersh99; 03-16-2018 at 12:56 PM..
# 2  
Old 03-16-2018
Code:
echo '^aa^,^11^' | sed 's#\^##g'

# 3  
Old 03-16-2018
Code:
tr -d '^' < file

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