Removing asterisks from a file

[James Gray]

On 16/10/2008, at 3:51 PM, Ranmadhu Wijayatilaka wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a text file with a bunch of asterisks in it. It is possible to
> remove the asterisks using the command line? I tried using echo and  
> sed
> but the echo command simply outputs all the files in the current
> directory when it gets up to an asterisks.

sed "s#*##g" file.txt > new_file.txt

That will remove the asterisks from "file.txt" and dump the result  
into "new_file.txt"

HTH,

James
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