[TriLUG] Change string with special character

[Thomas]

Craig,

That worked !! Thanks a lot. I have been struggling with this for a day.

And you helped me in under 1 hr. Have a nice weekend.

Regards,
Thomas

On 5/18/07, Craig Taylor <ctalkobt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Thomas <thomasvt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to change a string in a file
> >
> > \303\215 (all characters) with Í (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
> > ie: echo '\0315')
> > [...]
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
> >
>
>
>
> echo '\303\215' | sed "s/[\\]303[\\]215/@/" | tr "@" "\315"
>
> Note that I couldn't get the character 315 in the sed string directly so I
> used a '@' temporarily. TR is only for characters so won't work here.
>
> Note: There's probably a better way to represent literal \ in a sed string
> but [\\] works and I did it with-out use of the man page. :-)
>
> Feel free to change '@' to '@SOMELONGSTRING' that won't match anything else.
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