sed to remove pattern ','

[Andy Harrison]

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On 10-Apr-2003, adrian kok wrote message "sed to remove pattern ','"
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> 
> data:          'peter','30 Woodroad, CA','USA'
>                  'coral','110 Foreest','UK'
>                  
> to
>  'peter|30 Woodroad, CA|USA'
>  'coral|110 Foreest|UK'
>           
> and I used the following but failed
> 
> sed -e 's/\','/\|/g
> 

For one thing, you don't have a trailing quote.  Even still, it's easier just
to use double quotes in a case like this:


# echo \',\' | sed "s/','/|/g"
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