Skip/remove non-ascii character with sed

Question

Chip,Dirkland,DrobæSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa

I\'ve been trying to use sed to modify email addresses in a .csv but the line ab

Answer 1

This might work for you (GNU sed):

echo "Chip,Dirkland,DrobæSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa" |
sed 's/\o346/a+e/g'
Chip,Dirkland,Droba+eSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa

Then do what you have to do and after to revert do:

echo "Chip,Dirkland,Droba+eSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa" | 
sed 's/a+e/\o346/g'
Chip,Dirkland,DrobæSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa

If you have tricky characters in strings and want to understand how sed sees them use the l0 command (see here). Also very useful for debugging difficult regexps.

echo "Chip,Dirkland,DrobæSphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa" | 
sed -n 'l0'
Chip,Dirkland,Drob\346Sphere Inc,cdirkland@hotmail.com,usa$