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# 8  
Old 12-20-2018
x27 is the hexadecimal value for the single quote character: '


For a complete set of hex, octal, decimal values for the characters of the English alphabet plus some enlightening context, check, for example, https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
# 9  
Old 12-20-2018
The \x27 must be interpreted by sed, but some versions don't - it's not standard.
But the shell treats '\'' within a 'string' as a literal '
(The first ' ends the string followed by an escaped ' followed by another ' that starts the remaining string.)
Indeed the following is portable
Code:
sed 's/=\([^ ;][^ ;]*\)/='\''\1'\''/g'

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# 10  
Old 12-20-2018
[edit] I am mistaken, you are correct, since the \' isn't actually inside the double quoted string.
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