Re: Including ' in a sed command

[Bob McGowan <ramjr98@yahoo.com>]

On 8/7/25 07:17 PM, Tim Woodall wrote:
> iHi All,
>
> (Typed, rather than cut/pasted so apologies if there's a typo)
>
> This is part of a sed command in a bash script.
>
> sed 's/["'"'"']//'
>
> This matches " or '. It works.
>
> But it's 'unreadable' and almost impossible to find the typo if it's 
> wrong.
>
> Is there a better way of writing it? the obvious '["\']' doesn't work.
>
> Tim.
Have you considered using '-f scriptfile'?

Your regex goes in the file and completely eliminates issues of 
collisions with shell metacharacters.

Bob