Shell Programming and Scripting

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The code Scrutinizer suggested should work on a correctly functioning awk, but GNU awk sometimes handles regular expressions slightly differently than the way they are specified in the standards. But, the error you are getting is coming from the Korn shell; not from awk and mismatched double-quotes inside a single-quoted string in a shell script should have absolutely no effect on the number of parentheses that the shell sees as shell operators (i.e., none).

Although, in theory, it shouldn't make any difference, please try the following slight modifications of Scrutinizer's suggestion:

Code:

awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^["]|["]$/,"^",$i); gsub(/["]/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and:

Code:

awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^\"|\"$/,"^",$i); gsub(/\"/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and let us know if either of these produce different results.

Hi ,

It working fine. last character of double quotes are converted in to §. we need only double dollar are falling in value not at the end of the line. if double quotes falls first and last of every line . it should be ^.

We may have a language barrier here. What does "double dollar are falling in value" mean?

Please show us which awk command you are using, the sample input you are using, and the output you are getting. If you are trying to convert dollar signs ($) as well as double-quotes (") please explain under what circumstances that should happen. I didn't see anything about changing dollar signs in your earlier posts.