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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Special character \ Post 302351949 by clx on Thursday 10th of September 2009 04:12:28 AM
Old 09-10-2009
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Can you suggest me why this is wrong , or how to replace the above.

you need to escape the '\" also since its a special character for sed.


Code:
echo "D:\FXT\ABC.TXT" | sed -e 's#\\#\\\\#g'

should work.
 

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