[wplug] Escaping ; in script question

[billings at negate.org]

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:54, Russ Schneider wrote:
> In the following script:
> 
> for FILE in `grep -r -s -l copy backup` ; do
>          cp $FILE $FILE.new
>          sed s#copy; 2002#copy; 2002-2003#g $FILE.new > $FILE
>          rm $FILE.new
>          done
> 
> the process gets choked up because it things the ; in my search and 
> replace is seperating commands.
> 
> How do I escape the ;?

\;

or, you can put quotes around the sed expression, i.e.

sed 's#copy; 2002#copy; 2002-2003#g' $FILE.new > $FILE
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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
TSFNKP