10-05-2018
Whenever you start a thread in the Shell Programming and Scripting forum, please tell us what operating system and shell you're using!
And give us a clear explanation of what it is that you want to do. The fields in your CSV file seem to be separated by three character <double-quote><comma><double-quote> sequences.
You say you want to remove unwanted <comma>s; but you don't explain why the <comma>s in field six are unwanted, why both a <comma> and a <space> are unwanted in field four, and you don't explain why the <comma>s in other fields are not unwanted. You didn't say anything in your description about removing unwanted <space>s. (Note that the script vgersh99 suggested doesn't produce the output you say you want because it didn't remove the <space> after the <comma> you said you wanted removed in field four.)
With well over 100 posts in this forum, you should know by now that we expect you to show us what you have tried to solve this problem on your own. We want to help you learn how to do things like this on your own; not act as your unpaid programming staff.
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