07-05-2008
majormark, you missed the point of spirtle's post. If you use:
sed "s/old/new/"
then slash becomes a special character and you must escape any slashes that appear in either the old or new strings. But switch to:
sed "s=old=new="
and now slash is just another character that need not be escaped. so change that delimiter character to something that is not used in either the old or new strings. Then forget about the backslashes.
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