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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Trying to remove double quotes Post 302882364 by Saanvi1 on Monday 6th of January 2014 11:01:47 AM
Old 01-06-2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone :-)

Thanks a bunch for the replies. This was very helpful.
I tried the code below and it is working fine for me. I wanted to check if there is a way to ignore the triming of field3. It is a description field and tr command below is causing the values to come as one word. I have given example below:

tr -d '" ' <input_file >output_file

Example:
" value1", "value2","This is a test","value4 "

This tr -d '" ' <input_file is making the out to look like this:

value1,value2,Thisisatest,value4

The description field value is somehow getting as one work the space is gone after the command is run.
 

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