On Wednesday 30 January 2008 21:51:56 Olaf Grüttner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about working with sed. > I have an xml file containing > <theme>1</theme> > > I want to change this to > <theme>2</theme> > > I have problems with the "<" and ">" signs. Is there a was to mask them > in the sed command? > > sed s/"<theme>1</theme>"/"<theme>2</theme>"/g' test.xml > > does not work > > Greetings > Olaf
Special characters can be escaped with backslash, like this: sed -i s/\>2\</\>1\</ test.xml or: sed -i s/\<theme\>2\<\\/theme\>/\<theme\>1\<\\/theme\>/ test.xml -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
