[ale] Simple sed question

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> I am stumped on what should be a very simple sed operation.
> 
> I have some files that I would like to replace the "'" (apostrophe) with a
> blank space.
> 
> I thought the following would work, but it bombs:
> 
> sed -e 's/\'/ /' filename.txt

Just use double quotes on the outside. Then the single quote will be
protected from recognition from the shell. I just tried this:

sed -e "s/'/ /" ...

and it worked just fine.
Remember to put a g after the substitute if you have more than one '
on a line.

BAJ