RE: linux question

From: Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak_at_proquest.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:37 -0400
Message-ID: <6AFC12B9BFCDEA45B7274C534738067F14010591_at_AAPQMAILBX02V.proque.st>

If you want to remove just the quotes, you could do: vi your_file.txt

and in vi, do:
:s/"//g

That's colon,s,forward-slash,double-quote,forward-slash,forward-slash,g

Then, if it looks ok, to save the changes:
:wq

And there are probably a million other ways to do it, between, sed, awk, perl, emacs, etc,etc,etc.....

If you're unfamiliar/uncomfortable w/ vi, two other thoughts:

1.) Make a backup of the file before you begin. Do: cp your_file.txt your_file.txt.backup

2.) If you're in vi, and you do NOT want to save changes, instead of doing ':wq', do this:
:q!

Hope that helps,

-Mark

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Pipko Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:08 PM
To: 'oracle-l'
Subject: linux question

Hi all,
I have a file that I am moving from Windows to the Linux box. The file looks like:

"1,2,3,....."
"1,2,3,....."
So, every like is in double quotes.

How can I open the file and remove them (quotes) using Linux command? Is it easier to do it on Windows via some batch file?

Thanks,

Eugene Pipko
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