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Hi
I am trying to remove some characters from my data file.
The data file has huge number of records say 90000 records.
I am using sed for this purpose.
eg :

Code:

cat FILENAME|sed 's/;//g'

(to remove semi colon ';')

However as the data file is too huge , it is taking too much time to give result.
Any suggestion to improve the performance or alternate better way of doing it ?

Thanks in advance.

Try this, but i think there wont be much difference.

Code:

 
perl -i.bak -0pe 's/;//g' input

You could also try:

Code:

tr -d ';' < file

or:

Code:

awk -F; '$1=$1' OFS= file

Few things u can avoid..not to use cat filename|and then doing search

Bit modified one...

Code:

sed '/;/s/;//g' filename