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Old 05-10-2002
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I'm not sure that I understand exactly was is going on here. But I think that you want any single quote surrounded by letters to become two single quotes. If that is correct (and it does seem crazy), try this...

sed "s/\([a-zA-Z]\)\'\([a-zA-Z]\)/\1\'\'\2/g"