Re: escape characters in sed

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

Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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> Hans du Plooy escribió:
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> > Hi guys,
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> > I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text.  Looks like this:
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> > 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)
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> > To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space
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> > sed 's/\\)/ /
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> > But it does nothing.  Why?  How do I do this?
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> Well, I think you're replacing `)' and not `('
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Typo, sorry.  Should be:

sed 's/\\(/ /'


Still doesn't work though :-)  I guess the question should be, how to 
excape a ( character?

Thanks
Hans