UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi
I have the following issue
i am going to ask from the user the password
The password can have $ anywhere that is first last or in between but i have to append \ before the $ sign in the password can anyone please help

For example
o/p in the console will be like the following

Please Enter the password
Su$esh

Internally i should make it Su\$esh
How to achieve this. Can anyone please help

Thanks in advance
Suresh

Guessing you are using a shell-script, you can use for example:

Code:

echo 'aa$bb'| sed 's/\$/\\\$/g'
aa\$bb

Thank you for the help

zaxxon -- how exactly will he get a variable password inside those single quotes?

Good thing you don't need them.

Code:

password='aaa$bbb'
echo $password
echo $password | sed -e 's/\$/\\$/g'