sed question

OldNo7 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2004

I'm wondering if you can do the following with sed or some other way. I would like to chang the character "*" in a string to "\052" inside of a script?

i.e.

string="text * text"

#chang to

string="text \052 text"

mvijayv · #2 (**permalink**) 09-10-2008

This works for me ...

$echo "text * text"
text * text

$echo "text * text"|sed 's/\*/\\052/g'
text \052 text

Hope this helps ...
Vj

ghostdog74 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-10-2008

bash

Code:

#set -o noglob
#string="text * text"
# echo $string
text * text
# IFS="*"
# set -- $string
# echo $1
text
 # echo $2
 text
# echo $1\\052$2
text \052 text

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