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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with using a sed to add escape character \ before $ and ' symbols Post 302500943 by michaelrozar17 on Wednesday 2nd of March 2011 04:47:07 AM
Old 03-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by johny_be_good
Thanks, much better but one problem: it cuts the end of string:

Code:
echo "cond='1'$some" | sed "s/['\$]/\\\&/g"

result
cond=\'1\'
Its because the variable $some gets expanded. Escape the $ in the echo statement and try.
 

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