Removing in-field quotes in csv file

Question

Let\'s say we have a comma separated file (csv) like this:

\"name of movie\",\"starring\",\"director\",\"release year\"
\"dark knight rises\",\"christian bale,          


        

Answer 1

With awk you can do something like:

awk -v Q='"' '{ gsub("[\"']","") ; gsub(",",Q "," Q) ; print Q $0 Q }'