Re: remove a specific character occuring in file using script

you want to change "../foo" to ../foo?
see example:
blah.txt:

"../foo.blah"
rara
wewe
wewe
rara
wewe
wewe
rara
"../bar.blah"
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then perform:
~~perl -pi -e 's/\"(\.\.\/.*?)\"/$1/g' blah.txt~~
update only foo.blah? use:

perl -pi -e 's/\"(\.\.\/foo\.blah)\"/$1/g' blah.txt
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that results in:

../foo.blah
rara
wewe
wewe
rara
wewe
wewe
rara
"../bar.blah"
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Update 2 ah, if you'd use code tags, it would have been clear to me...
perl -pi -e 's/(source.*?)\"(\.\.\/.*)\"/$1$2/g' blah.txt

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Re^2: remove a specific character occuring in file using script by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2005 at 08:14 UTC
the solution you had suggested works fine , but problem is that i do not want to remove all occurences of '' in the file. i had told you i want the specific statement source "../xxx.cmd" to be replaces as source ../xxx.cmd. i want only this type of statements not all .	[reply]