[ale] Simple sed question

• Subject: [ale] Simple sed question
• From: byron at cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
• Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:54:17 -0500 (EST)

> 
> I am stumped on what should be a very simple sed operation.
> 
> I have some files that I would like to replace the "'" (apostrophe) with a
> blank space.
> 
> I thought the following would work, but it bombs:
> 
> sed -e 's/\'/ /' filename.txt

Just use double quotes on the outside. Then the single quote will be
protected from recognition from the shell. I just tried this:

sed -e "s/'/ /" ...

and it worked just fine.
Remember to put a g after the substitute if you have more than one '
on a line.

BAJ

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