Shell Script - Remove Double Quote (“”) from a String

Remove Double Quote from a String

1. The first expression 's/^"//' will remove the starting quote from the string.
2. Second expression 's/"$//' will remove the ending quote from the string.

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How do you remove double quotes in Shell?

2 Answers

1. sed 's/"//g' removes all double quotes on each line.
2. sed 's/^/"/' adds a double-quote at the beginning of each line.
3. sed 's/$/"/' adds a double-quote at the end of each line.
4. sed 's/|/"|"/g' adds a quote before and after each pipe.
5. EDIT: As per the pipe separator comment, we have to slightly change the command.

How do I remove double quotes in Unix?

1. I ran this, on the screen it flew by the thousands of entries and the quotes were gone. Within the file.txt though, the quotes were still there. – ...
2. I run this with csv file and all data is gone. I tired couple times with the same result. – ...
3. use sed -i 's/\"//g' [file name] – Magnus Melwin Jul 10 '18 at 5:56.

How do you trim double quotes in bash?

A simple and elegant answer from Stripping single and double quotes in a string using bash / standard Linux commands only: BAR=$(eval echo $BAR) strips quotes from BAR . If you don't want anything printed out, you can pipe the evals to /dev/null 2>