Remove all special characters even 'éèô' from string

Question

I would like to remove all special characters contained in a string. I tried some sample script but it doesn't remove all special characters.

echo "SamPlE_@tExT%, reééééally ?" | sed -e 's/[^a-z^A-Z]//g'

Output : tExTreééééaôlly

Expected : tExTreally

Why is `SamPlEtEx` not in output? – anubhava Mar 18 '19 at 08:28 — anubhava, Mar 18 '19 at 08:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '19 at 08:25

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The simplest would be to run the command with the C locale:

echo "SamPlE_@tExT%, reééééally ?" | LANG=C sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]//g'

Output:

SamPlEtExTreally

answered Mar 18 '19 at 08:25

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