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Old 07-17-2006
single or double quote in SED

i m trying the following command but its not working:

sed 's/find/\'replace\'/g' myFile

but the sed enters into new line

[root@asamiLinux root]# sed 's/find/re\'place/g' myFile
>

I havn't any idea how to put single quote in my replace string. Your early help woud be appreciated. Thanx
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Old 07-17-2006
Code:
sed "s/find/'replace'/g" myFile

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Old 07-17-2006
Thanx, i tried it earlier but didn't work at that time. now i find the problem , it was a tilde which created the problem
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