Converting charactors " to space

nichoover · 05-03-2007, 11:11 AM

I'm looking to convert some text in a file. I'd like to change instances of a quotation mark `"` to a space. This file has multiple lines of text. Eg.

user1"place1"date
user1"place2"date
user2"place2"date

Need it to be.

user1 place1 date
user1 place2 date
user2 place2 date

Thanks in advance.

pwc101 · 05-03-2007, 11:25 AM

Code:

cat inputfile | tr """ " " > outputfile

nichoover · 05-03-2007, 11:37 AM

Thank you, you got me on the right path.

I'm sure you ment this.

cat inputfile | tr "\"" " " > outputfile

Nic

pwc101 · 05-03-2007, 11:40 AM

Dammit! I thought it looked a bit funny as it was. Yeah, you need to escape the quote. You may have noticed I hadn't tested it!

pixellany · 05-03-2007, 11:56 AM

or:
sed 's/"/ /g'

This and the previous one assume that you want to change ALL the "s

radoulov · 05-03-2007, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nichoover

[...]
Eg.

user1"place1"date
user1"place2"date
user2"place2"date

Need it to be.

user1 place1 date
user1 place2 date
user2 place2 date

[...]

Code:

IFS='"'
echo $(<file)

But this will strip trailing empty lines.

ghostdog74 · 05-03-2007, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwc101

Code:

cat inputfile | tr """ " " > outputfile

UUOC. there's no need for cat.

Code:

tr .... < inputfile > outputfile

pwc101 · 05-04-2007, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostdog74

UUOC. there's no need for cat.

Code:

tr .... < inputfile > outputfile

See, I'd always wondered how you did tr on its own, without cating it first. Every day's a school day! Just out of interest, why don't they make it so tr can read from a file, like sed, awk, grep etc.?:

Code:

tr "\"" " " infile > outfile