Remove the special characters from field

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

In source data few of columns are having special charates(like *) due to this i am not able to display the data into flat file.it's displaying the some of junk data into the flat file.

source dataExample:

Address1="XDERFTG * HYJUYTG"

how to remove the special charates in a string

2

If you use double quotes around the variable reference, like so:

printf "%s\n" "$Address1"

for example, the asterisks should not give you the junk data...

4

Thnak you..
it's working