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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing quotes in sed Post 302895789 by blakeoft on Wednesday 2nd of April 2014 11:50:23 AM
Old 04-02-2014
Can you post a sample of file1.txt? Backticks ( ` ) execute what is between them first. Since XYZ is not a command, you might have to escape the command, i.e. put a \ in front of each backtick. See below:

Code:
>cat file1.txt
"`XYZ`"

>sed s/"`XYZ`"/"XZY"/g file1.txt
-bash: XYZ: command not found
sed: -e expression #1, char 0: no previous regular expression

>sed s/"\`XYZ\`"/"ZXY"/g file1.txt
"ZXY"

Is that what you want it to do?
Last edited by blakeoft; 04-02-2014 at 03:14 PM.. Reason: merged incomplete sentences and corrected some code
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