Question

I’m trying to remove all lines containing the copyright character (among other things, in a bash script), but it’s not working at all:

cat $srcdir/$txtfile |
sed "s/.*©.*/d" |
cat > $tgtdir/$txtfile

does nothing. However, running

echo blah © blah | sed "s/.*©.*//g"

in the terminal correctly yields

blah  blah

I’m using SciTE set to UTF-8 encoding, so the first block of code above is exactly what I see in the editor. Any ideas on how I could represent it in an editor so sed will recognise it?

Answer 1

You might try using the octal representation of © which is 251

$ echo blah © blah | sed 's/\o251/X/'
blah  blah

That is on “oh” and not a zero.

To delete lines containing that character, use

sed '/\o251/d'