Problem here is that sed treats $ as a special characer meaning end of line as well as
the korn
shell meaning variable replacement.
To avoid the shell evaluation, use ' not ".
to avoid the sed special charater, escape it.
echo '123$45$678' | sed 's/\$/\\\$/g'
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Subject: OT: unix script quetion: to
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Hi:
I have a quick question about replacing "$" with "\$" on unix. I need to
convert string "123$45$678" to "123\$45\$678" through a pipe. I tried with
sed command, but could not get it to work:
essex$ echo "123$45$678" | sed s/"$"/"\$"/g
123578$
essex$ echo "123$45$678" | sed s/"$"/"\\$"/g
123578$
Maybe there is another syntax that I should use? TIA.
Guang Mei
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