26 Feb
2006
26 Feb
'06
12:03 a.m.
On Feb 25, 2006, at 7:32, Oliver Taylor wrote:
Forgive the ignorance...
perl -pe ' s/"/"/g; '
This there any reason that the above wouldn't work? I'm guessing it has to with the "-pe" options (which I know nothing about).
In Perl the second half of s///, the replacement part, behaves like a double-quoted string so to speak. In particular you need to escape the backslash:
$ perl -pe 's/"/\"/g' file1 ... filen
-- fxn