Sed - insert character between tag

[Florian Diesch]

Bruno Galindro da Costa <bruno.galindro at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all!
>
> I have a text file with this content:
>
> VAR_1="xyz "abcd" fgh"
>
> Using sed, how can I insert a backslash before the two quotes between the
> first and last quote?
>
> e.g.: VAR_1="xyz \"abcd\" fgh"

 sed -r 's/"/\\"/g;s/\\"/"/;s/(.*)\\"/\1"/' 

Maybe there's something more elegant...


   Florian
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