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sed/grep new lines in text

Hello,

How do you stop sed or grep from putting a string on a new line?
I am working with a text file, and it is treating my spaces as newlines.

ex:
cat blah.txt | sed /\"/s/\"//g

INPUT:

"This is a test"
"Test1"
"Test2"

output:

This
is
a
test
Test1
Test2

Thanks

I'm not seeing results you see:

Code:

$ cat in

"This is a test"

"Test1"

"Test2"

$  sed /\"/s/\"//g in

This is a test

Test1

Test2

Note that I replaced your useless use of cat; nearly all utilities can read files specified as command line arguments.

Code:

$  sed 's/"//g' in 

This is a test

Test1

Test2

Note that I removed the addressing portion (/\"/) as it is unnecessary in your case. No substitution could occur unless the line contains a double quote anyway, right? Also, it is more common to use single quotes to quote the entire sed expression, as it makes reading the expression clearer.

Thank You for the pointer, I will do some reading up on sed.