Remove quotes with SED

Question

I am tracking some keywords on Twitter using the command below. I want to print just the "screen_name" property of the tweet author. I could get the command below working but want to remove "quotes" from the author screen_name. How could I do this?

curl -N -d @tracking http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json \
     -umyuser:mypass | \
sed -e 's/[{}]/''/g' | \
awk -v RS=',"' -F: '/^screen_name/ {print $2}'

Answer 1

cat a.txt | tr -d "\042"

It is better because it works in Windows too (using gnuwin32)

Answer 2

A little late to the party, this this utility sounds like it can be useful for parsing the json twitter returns: http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

Answer 3

Why use sed?

| tr -d '"'

Right tool for the right job.

Answer 4

You can do:

...existing_commands | sed 's/"//g'