On 2009-07-05 12:18 (+0200), Soren Orel wrote: > I can sed all the a-b-c-d-e, etc chars like this: > > sed "s//[a-z]/g" > > but how can I sed all the chars? (numbers, letters, special char) What do you mean with verb "sed" here. What do you want to do? The format of sed's "s" command is s/regexp/replace/flags In regexp atom "." matches any character. If you want to match any non-whitespace then use atom "\S".