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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed add special character Post 302980646 by RudiC on Wednesday 31st of August 2016 06:33:00 AM
Old 08-31-2016
Small adaption to your non-working solution:
Code:
echo test.test.test | sed 's/\.[^.]*$/\\& */'
test.test\.test *

With RavinderSingh13's variable A, try:
Code:
echo "${A%.*}\\.${A##*.} *"
test.test\.test *

 

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