$path =~ s/'//g;

will remove all single quote characters from the string $path. Here is a contrived example:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $path = q('/abc/dead/apple');
print "$path\n";
$path =~ s/'//g;
print "$path\n";
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This prints out:

'/abc/dead/apple'
/abc/dead/apple
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