On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 16:05:45 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> On 8/8/25 12:17, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > sed 's/["'"'"']//'
> > Is there a better way of writing it? the obvious '["\']' doesn't work.
The canonical POSIX ways would be:
sed 's/["'\'']//'
sed "s/[\"']//"
> These work with bash for me (bash). I usually prefer to enclose in dq since I
> often have shell vars in the rule:
> sed "s/[\"']//"
> sed $"s/["\']//"
The first one is correct (and isn't bash-specific). The second one
isn't correct. It should be:
sed $'s/["\']//'
That, of course, is a bashism. However, since we're just deleting single
characters, we could use tr instead:
tr -d \"\'
That would be my preference for this *particular* task.
hobbit:~$ echo $'Isn\'t it "great"?' | tr -d \"\'
Isnt it great?
