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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Deleting double quoted string from a line when line number is variable Post 302832037 by Corona688 on Friday 12th of July 2013 02:34:50 PM
Old 07-12-2013
You can double-quote part of a string, like so:

Code:
sed "$lineno"' s/"[a-zA-Z0-9]*"//' $file

I don't think you need to escape " inside single-quotes(since sed shouldn't need them) as nothing can be escaped inside single quotes anyway.
 

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PMKSYNTAX(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						      PMKSYNTAX(5)

NAME
PMK Syntax -- PMK files syntax manual DESCRIPTION
This manual page describe the basic syntax used in PMK files such as pmkfile and scanfile DATA TYPES
PMK uses pseudo types like the following: bool The classical boolean type with TRUE and FALSE values. For example: TRUE FALSE identifier An identifier is a string of alphanumerical and underscores characters. For example: REQUIRED a_label underscores_are_nice quoted This means quoted string which can contain a set of characters delimited by quotation marks. For examples: "simple quoted string" "string that contain "quotes" backslashed" "can also contain filenames like pmkfile.scan" list It is one or more of the previous types between brackets. Multiple objects are separated with a comma. Blanks are currently not allowed beside commas, this means that you can find them only in a quoted string of the list. For example: ("only_one_string") ("added a boolean",TRUE) (mixed_list_of,"words","and",TRUE,"quoted strings") BASIC SYNTAX
PMK can contain comments, blank lines and commands. A command has the following format (? character means optional field): <command><?(label)> { <body> } The command and label names can be assimilated to the 'word' type. See DATA TYPES above. The body can contain comment(s) and definition line(s). A commented line start with a '#' character like the following: # this is a comment line A definition line has the following format: <?blank><key name><?blank>=<?blank><key value> The key name is of identifier type. The key value type can be 'bool', 'quoted' or 'list'. The right type will depend on the key name (see further). For example: CHECK_INCLUDE(header_sys_param) { # following options use different uses of blank characters # key value is word type REQUIRED = TRUE # key value is list type DEPEND= ("dep_one",dep_two,"dep_three") # key value is quoted type INCLUDE = "sys/param.h" } SEE ALSO
pmkfile(5), scanfile(5) BSD
November 5, 2005 BSD
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