Hello monks,

I would like to replace all double quotation marks (") in a text document which are not directly followed by the a ītick (') or a backtick (`) with ticks.

For example, the text

This is "an example", but "`this not"'.

Should look like this afterwards:

This is 'an example', but "`this not"'.

The background is LaTeX: I have a german document that contains proper german quotation marks (the 'this not' part above) as well as broken ones (the 'an example' part).

Does anybody know a Perl one-liner on the command line for this?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

I tried 
cat file.txt | perl -pe 's/\"[^[\'\`]/"`/g'

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but something is wrong, the shell wants more input.

In reply to One-liner to fix LaTeX quotation marks by tim_the_monk

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