RE: sed - escape character

Sorry... was reviewing my notes and I discovered my solution (aposts instead
of quotes) is insufficient.

The archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l reveal that this has
been discussed many times. Scott has repeatedly provided correct answers to
this problem.

I did not, however, see this solution: (Maybe for good reason, huh? :) )
This may be a little cleaner, and will work as long as the input contains no
forward slash (/) characters. It's the "as long as" that you have to be
leary of.

Qsh cmd('sed -e "s?&1?<//MCBELL4/BossTemp/NewAccount/LHCTEST2ERROR.csv>?g"
-e "s?/?\\?g" <
/tmp/SVEML_PALHC_MSRL3E144A_962203.txt >
/tmp/SVEML_PALHC_MSRL3E144A_962203.txt.sedout')


(all on one line, of course.) The above will replace &1 with the text seen
above, then will replace all forward slash with backward ones. All in one
instance of sed.

Dennis Lovelady
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hockchai Lim
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:33 PM
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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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