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How to remove special 'M-BM-' character with sed

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I have file that was created by copying content from DOCX document with LibreOffice into text file. I have modified file with sed to remove additional spaces and other stuff but then I noticed space that was immune to regular command:

sed -r 's:some-text :some-text:g' -i file

After using cat -A file I found out that this looks like this:

<p>M-BM- Lorem ipsum</p>

How to remove it?

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answered 1 Year ago strhen · Accepted Answer

After trying a lot of things, I have finally found solution. To replace that weird character with sed, you need to copy and paste exact text that contains that weird space near it, and then paste it directly into sed command:

sed -r 's:paste-here:<p>:g' -i file

Which will look like this in sed command:

sed -r 's:<p> :<p>:g' -i file

but it will work anyway.