Removing asterisks from a file

[Ulf Rompe]

Am Donnerstag, den 16.10.2008, 15:51 +1100 schrieb Ranmadhu
Wijayatilaka:
> I have a text file with a bunch of asterisks in it. It is possible to 
> remove the asterisks using the command line?

The lightest weight solution might be tr:

tr -d '*' FILENAME > FILENAME_NEW

If you want the new content to be written into the original files and
are absolutely sure about what you do, you may be interested in sed's in
place editing:

sed -i -e 's#*##g' FILENAME

You can also provide a backup extension to "-i" to get backups of
modified files.

[x] ulf 

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