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.

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