How to remove all instances of a particular symbol from a text file?
tr
can do that:
tr -d \" < infile > outfile
You could also use sed
:
sed 's/"//g' < infile > outfile
Another version of sed command:
sed -i s/\"//g file.txt
sed
stream editor-i
in-place (edit file in place)s
the substitute command/replacement_from_reg_exp/replacement_to_text/
statement\"
quotes preceded by backslash (replacement_from_reg_exp)- empty string between slash delemiters (replacement_to_text)
g
global (for replace all occurrence in line)
file.txt
the file name