Removing "#" character in a huge txt file

tmaxx · 10-24-2006, 01:48 AM

hi

does anyone have a sed script which removes leading # character in a huge txt file
example:

#92023424
#98498934
#38438438
342342342
342342323
342342434

thanks

bathory · 10-24-2006, 01:56 AM

Code:

sed 's/#//' huge.txt> huge-new.txt

bmintern · 10-24-2006, 01:57 AM

sed s/^#//

Edit: Whoops, beat me to it, but do note that if you only want to remove leading #'s you will want the ^ in there. Otherwise, something like this:

stuff # comment about that stuff

will be replaced with:

stuff comment about that stuff

which may cause problems by whatever is reading this file.

tmaxx · 10-24-2006, 03:04 AM

thanks for the help guys