[oclug] Re: sed problem

[Kevin Everets]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:49:09PM -0400, Vytas Janusauskas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem that I hope can be easily be solved.  I have a bunch of 
> files in which I wish to substitute the # character with the & 
> character.  So I build a script containing sed commands as shown below.
> 
> sed -e 's/#/&/g  M021D14.AML > A021D14.AML
> etc ....

You have to escape the "&" like so:

sed -e 's/#/\&/g' M021D14.AML > A021D14.AML

Or you could also use the "tr" command:

cat M021D14.AML | tr "#" "&" > A021D14.AML

Kevin.