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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed and special character in data Post 302161023 by MizzGail on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 11:09:43 AM
Old 01-23-2008
sed and special character in data
I have a script that is reading an existing report, pulling out the customer code, then tacking on the customer name from another file and replacing the existing customer code with the new field. This was written for me by someone else. I'm not real familiar with sed.

The data is getting into the variables correctly, but if the customer name contains a "&" sign, then it repeats the first variable.


My statements are

y=`echo $a$b$i`
z=`echo $a$b$i$b$x`
sed s/"$y "/"$z "/g a.txt > CusT_TmP
cat CusT_TmP a.txt

When I run the script I get back
a=CUST-CD:
b=" "
i=123456
x= W & B

y=CUST-CD: 123456
z=CUST-CD: 123456 W & B Corp

But the entry in the output comes out like

CUST-CD 123456 W CUST-CD 123456 B Corp

Any customer name that I have an & in the name does this.

Any ideas of how to fix this?
Thanks
 

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