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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace double quotes with a single quote within a double quoted string Post 302899990 by pchang on Friday 2nd of May 2014 05:05:49 PM
Old 05-02-2014
I hope I can be clear on my explanation.

We are basically receiving a csv file from the vendor and any field they deemed as text, they will enclose with a double quote.

The problem arises when they also have/use a double quote as part of the data.

In my example, it's an address field of a customer and the name of the street happens to have a quote in it and vendor has used double quotes for the data (Ex: VAL D"OR instead of VAL D'OR). If vendor used a single quote instead, everything would have been okay.

This is causing us issue when cleaning up the file using sed because there's an unmatched quotes in the file. That's why I'm looking to replace any double quotes that is part of the data with a single one.

Hope this answers your questions.

Thanks.
 

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dpkg-vendor

dpkg-vendor(1)							    dpkg suite							    dpkg-vendor(1)

NAME

       dpkg-vendor - queries information about distribution vendors

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-vendor [option...] command

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-vendor  is a tool to query information about vendors listed in /etc/dpkg/origins. /etc/dpkg/origins/default contains information about
       the current vendor.

COMMANDS

       --is vendor
	      Exits with 0 if the current vendor is vendor. Otherwise exits with non-zero.

       --derives-from vendor
	      Exits with 0 if the current vendor distribution is a derivative of vendor, otherwise exits with non-zero. It uses the "Parent" field
	      to browse all ancestors of the current vendor.

       --query field
	      Print on standard output the value of the vendor-specific field for the current vendor.

       --help Show the usage message and exit.

       --version
	      Show the version and exit.

OPTIONS

       --vendor vendor
	      Assumes  the  current  vendor  is  vendor  instead  of  discovering  it  with  the DEB_VENDOR environment variable or /etc/dpkg/ori-
	      gins/default.

ENVIRONMENT

       DEB_VENDOR
	      This setting defines the current vendor. If not set, it will discover the current vendor by reading /etc/dpkg/origins/default.

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2009 Raphael Hertzog

       This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO WARRANTY.

Debian Project							    2009-05-10							    dpkg-vendor(1)
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