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# 1  
Old 10-02-2008
<92> unknown character when opened with Vi editor in Linux
Hi,

One of our applications has this string :
xxx ¿ yyyyy
We are on Linux Suse and the character set is en_US.UTF-8. Our requirement is to replace this special character ¿ with a space. When we open the file containing this string using VI editor we see the same character as <92>

xxx <92> yyyyy
When we try to replace <92> with space using sed command, its not able to recognize this character <92> and so its not able to replace it.

Please advice on how to replace this unknown character/code

Thanks,


# 2  
Old 10-02-2008
Code:
perl -i~ -pe 's/\x92/ /' filename

There are many other ways but many of them are not entirely portable. If you have Perl, this should work without modification. The original file will be saved as filename~
# 3  
Old 10-02-2008
Thanks Era for the reply. The command did not replace the <92> character. Any reason?
# 4  
Old 10-02-2008
Hi Era, Sorry the command worked. I was looking in to the Original File instead. Thanks so much. Smilie
# 5  
Old 10-06-2008
Replacing ¿ special character on Linux
We are on Linux Suse. One of our application has this string XXX ¿ YYY in the data file. I think it was entered through some spanish keyboard. But we want to replace this character with a space before we send the file to other applications.

I opened the file using Vi Editor .I thought first of all i need to copy this character and use the command
sed 's/¿/ /g' to replace the character with a space. But i couldn't even copy this character.

Please advice.

Thanks,
# 6  
Old 10-06-2008
you can't copy that character?? then how did you pasted it in forum??
# 7  
Old 10-06-2008
Hi,

Will suggest you to search well first before putting a question. This is already answered earlier

take a look here
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...using-sed.html

Hope this helps you..
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