# Sed Problem

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620>\
**Category:** Shell Programming and Scripting\
**Created:** [November 7, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620 "2008-11-07T08:36:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/aliahsan81/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/u/aliahsan81)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/1 "2008-11-07T08:36:40Z")

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I have a file which contain many lines see below.

"/var/www/abc\>"

I want to remove Both of these values  
"" and \>

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**Author:** ![zaxxon](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/zaxxon/32/660_2.png) [@zaxxon](https://community.unix.com/u/zaxxon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/2 "2008-11-07T08:51:28Z")

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```nohighlight
echo '"/var/www/abc>"'| tr -d '">'
/var/www/abc

```

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**Author:** ![demwz](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/demwz/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@demwz](https://community.unix.com/u/demwz)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/3 "2008-11-07T08:52:17Z")

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echo '"/var/www/abc\>"' | tr -d "\"|\>"  
oops - someone was quicker

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**Author:** ![aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/aliahsan81/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/u/aliahsan81)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/4 "2008-11-07T08:55:51Z")

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Thx

But i did a typo mistake file contain these line,and many more but some what different from each other.  
"/var/www/abc"\>  
"/var/www/xyz"\>

So i only need sed to do the job if possible.

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**Author:** ![zaxxon](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/zaxxon/32/660_2.png) [@zaxxon](https://community.unix.com/u/zaxxon)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/5 "2008-11-07T09:02:19Z")

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Why not use tr? You can use sed, right, but why not tr?

```nohighlight
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> cat infile
"/some/path/whatever/weekend">
"/var/www/abc">
"/var/www/xyz">
"/is/close/noting/can/stop/it">
"/really">
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> tr -d '">' < infile
/some/path/whatever/weekend
/var/www/abc
/var/www/xyz
/is/close/noting/can/stop/it
/really
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> sed 's/[">]//g' infile
/some/path/whatever/weekend
/var/www/abc
/var/www/xyz
/is/close/noting/can/stop/it
/really

```

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**Author:** ![aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/aliahsan81/32/6_449c533f586939b6e5f246632a46421f.png) [@aliahsan81](https://community.unix.com/u/aliahsan81)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/sed-problem/219620/6 "2008-11-07T09:10:21Z")

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No problem with tr but i like sed 😃