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Old 05-30-2008
Remove double quotes
A Triva question.

What is the easy way to remove the double quotes in the file in the following format.

"asdfa","fdgh","qwer"

HTML Code:
tr -d '\"' <filename >newfilename
mv newfilename oldfilename
This need to be handled in a script. Any better way to do this. Will sed be more effecient?

One more question, If I come to know, " by itself a valid character in a field, I plan to remove "," and replace with , and in addition to that, first and last ".
May I know how to achieve this?
 
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logadm.conf(4)                                                     File Formats                                                     logadm.conf(4)

NAME

       logadm.conf - configuration file for logadm command

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       /etc/logadm.conf  is  the default configuration file for the log management tool logadm(1M). Comments are allowed using the pound character
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SunOS 5.10                                                          6 Dec 2001                                                      logadm.conf(4)