Cancel character not working in this case

[dennis89]

Hi everyone,

I'm using sed to edit some text, and I have this code in a section.
In this example I'm trying to replace some html code with a single quote character.
Thus, &rsquo => '

sed 's/’/\'/g'

It doesn't cancel the rightside quote, and thus gives me an error.
This code is part of a longer line, so multiple sed operations on the same line. So I tried leaving out the single quotes at the beginning and end of the operations, but also returned an error.

[dennis89]

Also, I can't do

sed "s/’/'/g"

because I'm replacing the double quotes further on on the same line as well.

So more specifically, I need it to work for this

sed 's/’/'/g; s/”/"/g; s/“/"/g'

It replaces the double quotes fine though.

To make it more understandable, rsquo = right side single quote, rdquo = right side double quote, and ldquo = left side double quote.

[dennis89]

I decided to work around it.

Instead of grouping all the sed commands like that, I used the -e option to group them, and then used the double quotes for the sed command that replaces the single quote.

Problem fixed.