Any idea how to get rid of this irritating character U+0092 from a bunch of text files? I've tried all the below but it doesn't work. It's called U+0092+control from the character map
sed -i 's/\xc2\x92//' *
sed -i 's/\u0092//' *
sed -i 's///' *
Ah, I've found a way:
CHARS=$(python2 -c 'print u"\u0092".encode("utf8")')
sed 's/['"$CHARS"']//g'
But is there a direct sed method for this?
Try sed "s/\`//g" *
. (I added the g
so it will remove all the backticks it finds).
EDIT: It's not a backtick that OP wants to remove.
Following the solution in this question, this ought to work:
sed 's/\xc2\x92//g'
To demonstrate it does:
[foo@bar ~]$CHARS=$(python -c 'print u"asdf\u0092asdf".encode("utf8")')
[foo@bar ~]$echo $CHARS
asdf<funny glyph symbol>asdf
[foo@bar ~]$echo $CHARS | sed 's/\xc2\x92//g'
asdfasdf
Seeing as it's something you tried already, perhaps what is in your text file is not U+0092?
This might work for you (GNU sed):
echo "string containing funny character(s)" | sed -n 'l0'
This will display the string as sed sees it in octal, then use:
echo "string containing funny character(s)" | sed 's/\onnn//g'
Where nnn
is the octal value, to delete it/them.