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Replace fancy-quotes / curly-quotes / smart-quotes with standard ASCII single- and double-quotes in bash
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Replaces annoying "fancy" quotes created by programs like Microsoft Word and everything in MacOS | |
| # with normal ASCII single-quotes (') or double-quotes (") | |
| # This script does NOT replace the GRAVE ACCENT (`) since it is commonly used in Markdown and as a bash command | |
| # See: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html | |
| SINGLE=$(echo -ne '\u00B4\u2018\u2019') | |
| DOUBLE=$(echo -ne '\u201C\u201D') | |
| sed -i "s/[$SINGLE]/'/g; s/[$DOUBLE]/\"/g" $1 |
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