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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 10362

Replacing escape sequences with Sed

With the following text file, test.txt:

{\x22order\x22:\x22161332\x22,\x22name\x22:\x22chiller\x22,\x22code\x22:\x22chiller\x22}
{\x22order\x22:\x22161332\x22,\x22name\x22:\x22chiller\x22,\x22code\x22:\x22chiller\x22}
{\x22order\x22:\x22161332\x22,\x22name\x22:\x22chiller\x22,\x22code\x22:\x22chiller\x22}

How do I replace occurrences of \x22 with single quotation marks in Sed?

I've tried this with no avail: sed -i "s#\x22#'#g" test.txt

Upvotes: 0

Views: 376

Answers (1)

Ed Morton
Ed Morton

Reputation: 203985

You need to escape the backslash to make it literal and you need to use '\'' to represent a single quote in a single-quote-delimited (which they all should be unless absolutely necessary to be otherwise) string or script

$ sed 's/\\x22/'\''/g' file
{'order':'161332','name':'chiller','code':'chiller'}
{'order':'161332','name':'chiller','code':'chiller'}
{'order':'161332','name':'chiller','code':'chiller'}

Upvotes: 2

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