[wplug] Escaping ; in script question

[Sal Mangiapane]

If choosing the quoted solution, I think the ' single quotes are required.  It may not work double quotes.

sal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org]On Behalf Of
> billings at negate.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Escaping ; in script question
> 
> 
> 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
> -- 
> Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
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