如何使用sed将双引号保留在双引号中

Question

For example,

echo "hello, mon saids "I am tired", Sorry"

The result is :

hello, mon saids I am tired, Sorry

The expected result:

hello, mon saids "I am tired", Sorry

I know we can use

echo "hello, mon saids \"I am tired\", Sorry"

But I suppose to do this in one file or many files, cannot manually insert \\ to every ". Could you provide a way to do this using sed?

Answer 1

You can use single quotes around the string as following:

echo 'hello, mon saids "I am tired", Sorry'

This way, the inner double quotes will be preserved without the need to escape them with backslashes.

Answer 2

I understand that using single quotes as suggested may work, so using this sed may help

sed -E "s/(^.)|(.$)/'/g"

This can help to shift the first and the last double quotes to single ones.