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Hi Team,

I am new to shell script.
Do kindly help me remove junk character from a file having a million records.. As it is production setup do kindly advice

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Do kindly explain exactly what you need. Junk character means nothing.
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Junk character like ^M,#,$
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That "^M" is a unix line end, use the dos2unix command first. For the rest use sed.
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