Re: escape characters in sed

["Dennis G. Wicks" <wix@eskimo.com>]

Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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> > Hans du Plooy escribió:
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> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > 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/\\)/ /
> > >
> > > But it does nothing.  Why?  How do I do this?
> > >     
> >
> > Well, I think you're replacing `)' and not `('
> >   
> Typo, sorry.  Should be:
>
> sed 's/\\(/ /'
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>
> Still doesn't work though :-)  I guess the question should be, how to 
> excape a ( character?
>
> Thanks
> Hans

I think you have too many \, try

    sed 's/\(/ /'

That is the way it would be done in perl, vim, etc.
but sed may be different! ;-)

Good Luck!
Dennis