RE: sed - escape character

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should be able to get the effect you want my changing quotes (") to
apostrophes (').

It's the shell, not sed, that's processing the escapes.

Regards,
Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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> 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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