On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:49 +1000, david wrote:

> I've noticed the same problem applies to using & in the replacement on
> the cli. It seems that the replacement part doesn't recognise a
> backslash. Have I missed something?

first slash is absorbed by shell and therefore sed does not get it.  use
two \\.

gets complicated if you go multiple shells :-)
-- 
Ken Foskey
FOSS developer

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