waffle.horn@googlemail.com wrote:
>
> Im trying to remove two types of rogue characters but I can't seem to
> think of the correct solution with sed. The characters Im trying to
> remove are the @ and ` characters shown below
>
> -0.1000@-0.1000
>
> -0.1000`-0.1000
>
> I have tried...
>
> sed 's/@/ /' FILENAME | sed 's/`/ /'
>
> It doesn't seem to work for all instances. Any idea would be much
> appreciated

If you want to remove them:

tr -d '@`' < FILENAME

If you want to replace them with a space like your example shows:

tr '@`' ' ' < FILENAME



John
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