Re: escape characters in sed

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hi Hans.
>
> Hans du Plooy, 13.05.2007 16:51:
>   
> > I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text.  Looks like this:
> >
> > 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)
> >
> > To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space
> >
> > sed 's/\\)/ /
> >     
>
> No, just type the parenthesis, no escaping necessary.

Thanks Mathias - guess I was trying to be too smart :-)

Hans