delete a special character in file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi

i want to delete a particular character in file.

example

file name:abcsample

abc=bbbqw3/
hidh=ajjqiwio4/
xyx=hakjp/
........../
......./

i want to delete that special character (/) in abcsample file.please give the required commands for my requirement.

thank you

2 
tr -d '/' < sample.txt
3

using awk

awk -F '/' '{print $0}' abcsample

4

You can open the file in VI and from the command mode type %s/\///g and enter. The special character will be replaced by null char.

The trick is to escape the special character (here done by typing a leading back slash before the special char).