Replacing SNOWMAN with double quotes using sed

[pklcnu]

Dear Experts

We have 'SNOWMAN' UTF-8 character in our files which i need to replace with doublequotes (").

The UTF-8 hex value for 'SNOWMAN' is 0xE2 0x98 0x83 (e29883) , I have written the commands like this but it is not working .........

sed -i 's/\x0xE2 0x98 0x83/"/g' FileName

Any help will be much appreciated

Thanks

[pklcnu]

Any help please..........

Thanks

[Rubberman]

Try:

sed -i "s/'SNOWMAN'/\"SNOWMAN\"/g" FileName

[pklcnu]

Hi

I was still unable resolve this issue, I am not looking to replace the word SNOWMAN but the symbol snowman which is ☃ , whose unicode is 2603.

How do I replace this symbol in a file with single quotes.

Any help will be much appreciated .

Thanks very much in advance

[Rubberman]

Ok. I get it now. The "snowman" symbol in unicode you want to replace with standard ascii double quotes. Correct?

[pklcnu]

Yes Please.............thanks

[Rubberman]

I'm still looking into that. Are you sure about the hex value of the symbol embedded in the file(s)? Also, are the bytes in the file(s) in hex x26 and x03 in that order?

[pklcnu]

Hi

Thanks for your commitment , time and reply

The hex value of snow man is 0xE2 0x98 0x83 , and when i see this in unix i will see some thing like 'a' with ^ and . on the top of letter ' a' ..........sorry i cann't paste exact character that i see on the linux screen.........but when i copy paste that charcter and try to replace this character it is getting replacing which is nothing but xE2 is getting replaced but the other part x98 and x83 are not getting replaced because these are non-printable charcters and when i try to delete the non printable characters it is deleting all the spaces, tabs and new line charcaters from the file...........

Thanks

[Rubberman]

Have patience - I'm still deciding on the best way to deal with this. I'll try to respond later today or tomorrow, work permitting.