Re^2: Simple regexp question

Hi, sorry for the lack of info, I am new at this. Anyways, my text file features the following set of lines at variable lengths # **************************** I basically just want to get rid of all #'s and *'s in the file.

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Re^3: Simple regexp question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2006 at 07:21 UTC
`perl -pe "s/[#]//g" infile > outfile` [download] or in-place: `perl -i.bak -pe "s/[#]//g" filename` [download] If you want to delete the entire line, then `perl -pe "next if /[#]/" infile > outfile` [download] or in-place: `perl -i.bak -pe "next if /[#]/" filename` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Simple regexp question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 31, 2006 at 07:21 UTC

perl -pe "s/[#*]//g" infile > outfile
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perl -i.bak -pe "s/[#*]//g" filename
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perl -pe "next if /[#*]/" infile > outfile
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perl -i.bak -pe "next if /[#*]/" filename
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[reply]
[d/l]
[select]