Shell script - remove first and last quote (") from a variable

Question

Below is the snippet of a shell script from a larger script. It removes the quotes from the string that is held by a variable. I am doing it using sed, but is it efficient?

Answer 1

If you're using jq and trying to remove the quotes from the result, the other answers will work, but there's a better way. By using the -r option, you can output the result with no quotes.

$ echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | jq '.foo'
"bar"

$ echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | jq -r '.foo'
bar