Re: sed - escape character

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to escape the escape character.  Thus \\ when one \ is needed.  

John McKee
-----Original message-----
From: "hockchai Lim" lim.hock-chai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:33:20 -0500
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: sed - escape character

> I've a sed command that looks like below:
> QSH CMD('sed -e "s?&1? <\\MCBELL4\BossTemp\NewAccount\LHCTEST2ERROR.csv>?g" 
> /tmp/SVEML_PALHC_MSRL3E144A_962203.txt > /tm
> p/SVEML_PALHC_MSRL3E144A_962203.txt.sedout')
>
> Above sed command is to replace all the &1 text with 
> \\MCBELL4\BossTemp\NewAccount\LHCTEST2ERROR.csv.   Unfortunately, the result 
> that I got is
> <MCBELL4BossTempNewAccountLHCTEST2ERROR.csv>.  All those \ character went 
> missing.  I assuming this is because \ is a special escape character.  Is 
> there a way to tell sed to ignore applying of escape character?
>
> thanks
>
>
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