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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace special characters with Escape characters? Post 302587600 by in2nix4life on Thursday 5th of January 2012 10:15:26 AM
Old 01-05-2012
And just one more.... Smilie

Code:
export var1='One Way To !@#$%^&*()-= Do It'

echo $var1 | sed 's#\([]\!\(\)\#\%\@\*\$\/&\-\=[]\)#\\\1#g'

One Way To \!\@\#\$\%^\&\*\(\)-\= Do It

 

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