On 2025-08-08 02:17:29, Tim Woodall wrote: > iHi All, > > (Typed, rather than cut/pasted so apologies if there's a typo) > > This is part of a sed command in a bash script. > > sed 's/["'"'"']//' > > This matches " or '. It works. > > But it's 'unreadable' and almost impossible to find the typo if it's wrong. > > Is there a better way of writing it? the obvious '["\']' doesn't work. > > Tim. >
Hi, You can also use the octal form like sed 's/'$(printf "\047")'//' (\042 for double quotes) Rand
