[wplug] Escaping ; in script question

[Mike Griffin]

The backslash  ( \ )  character escapes


On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 10:54  AM, 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 ;?
>
>
>
>
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