SED functionality

[Dave Walley]

Hi again.

I need to strip single quotes from a file and have been using the following string without success. Can anyone advise me on the correct solution.

sed -e 's/'//g'

Thanks.

Dave

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Try changing your outer single quotes to double ones i.e.

sed -e "s/'//"

Should have the desired effect.

[John Palmer]

As there are no spaces etc in the sed string then you can even get away with no outer quotes at all. Just 'backslash' the single quote:-

sed -e s/\'//g

[James R. Ferguson]

Dave:

sed s/\"//g

...JRF...

[Vikas Khator]

Hi ,

sed -e "s/'//g" should do the thing.

You don't need to .