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Is there a command to automatically escape a string for use in sed? I got frusturated escaping for simple replacement: https://github.com/jakeogh/replace-text

• klshxsh 12y ago
  If you find yourself having to escape a lot of slashes, then you can do something like this: echo "/foo/bar" | sed -e 's|/foo|/tmp|' (The article mentions this)
  • JetSpiegel 12y ago
    It can be any character really. I like sed 's,foo,bar,' sed 's@foo@bar@'
• Tobu 12y ago
  Python has re.escape; awk can take variable definitions from the command line: echo b |awk '/b/{print a}' a=4