On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 17:54 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote: > How do I get sed to recognize a double-quote in the search string area? > > sed 's/http\:\"//' I thought would find http:" and strip it out. But > instead it bypasses the search entirely. This should work: sed -e 's/http\:\"//' -JIm P.