On Monday 25 January 2021 at 20:37:31, Aris Aguirre wrote: > you cant...cos a lot of characters there.. i cant find a way how to delete > them in regex.
Can you explain to us exactly what you want the command to identify? Are there, for example, certain characters which should never appear in a file, and if they do, you want the content to be replaced? If that's not the case, then what do you want to recognise and replace? How would you tell a person what to do? > On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 1:05:37 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 1:58 PM Aris Aguirre <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I can easily use a file module to delete the existing file and create a > > > new one with File1 content. > > > > > But I want to modifile the file using lineinfile or replace. Please > > > help. Thanks > > > > > > Existing File: > > > This is an existing file / $ % with invalid characters &*() Blahh > > > > > > Expected Output: > > > File1 > > > > If you can define it in regexp you can do it. Regards, Antony. -- Police have found a cartoonist dead in his house. They say that details are currently sketchy. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
