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Old 06-03-2008
Removing '." character using SED
HI All,

Have some files which contains some string like,

"create .<table1> as"
"insert into .<table2> values",

i want to replace ".<table1>" with only "<table1>", i.e removing '.' character in ksh, i have written below code but it is not removing the dot character, any help?

for name in `cat $filename`;
do
sed 's/\.$name/$name/g' $name > temp; mv -f temp $name;
done


where $filename contains list of files.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 06-03-2008
Code:
echo " .namish is kumar tiwari" | sed s'/\.namish/namish/'
namish is kumar tiwari

Thanks
# 3  
Old 06-03-2008
You have the same problem with the shell variables, which are in single quotation marks where they can't be substituted by the shell. Have a look in this other thread; there is a small example how to fix this:
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...i-morning.html
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