RE: sed - escape character

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hockchai Lim
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:33 PM
> 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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