How do I use sed for replacing ' by apostrophe?

EduPorteño · 01-11-2014, 06:53 AM

I have an html source which says things like "Where do you feel a woman's place is", I want it to say "Where do you feel a woman's place is".
I've tried 's/'/'/g' pages.csv and sed 's/'/\'/g' pages.csv to no avail.
If I use @ for the apostrophe it works well.
Any idea?

druuna · 01-11-2014, 07:11 AM

Try this:

Code:

sed "s/'/'/" infile

Example:

Code:

$ cat foo.in
Where do you feel a woman's place is

 $ sed "s/'/'/" foo.in
Where do you feel a woman's place is

This would also work:

Code:

$ sed 's/'/'\''/' foo.in