I'm trying to sed a character out of a series of files. The character is the euro symbol in Windows, 128 on the character map I believe. In vi it's showing up as ^À. I've tried running: sed "s/^À//" filein > fileout but it doesn't work. Man pages and internet searches haven't helped me at all, or I'm just missing something.

Try this (128 dec = 200 oct) : tr -d '\200' filein > fileout Jean-Pierre.

Worked. Thanks.

What about the same effect using sed? There is also a new line after the character that also needs to go, so tr won't work entirely. I tried running: sed "s/\o200//g" filein > fileout as a test to see if sed has the same effect, but the character has remained with everything I've tried.

Try this : tr '%' '\200' < input_file| awk '1' RS="\200\n" ORS="" awk '1' : short cut for "awk '{print}' RS="\200\n" : Input record separator = Euro+NewLine ORS="" : Output receord separator = nothing ==> RS is replaced by ORS Jean-Pierre.