On Fri, 8 Aug 2025, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
If you can guarantee that another spare character will not appear in your
input, doing something like this (with @ as the spare) can help to avoid the
layers-of-escapes problem.
? | tr \" @ | sed ? | tr @ \"
It's a simple hack, but sometimes they're just the thing. If you are going to
strip out all the tabs anyway, for example, you could do that first, and have
tab as a spare.
Ha, brilliant!
In my case I can just strip out the quotes completely I think with tr -d
"\"',"
Maybe even the spaces too and have 's/.*\$ref:\(.*\)/\1/'
I need to check but I think it's only a trailing comma that I need to
worry about and all the filenames are "sane" with no spaces or commas in
them.
Tim.
