[Techtalk] Escaping single quotes in a file with a bash script

[Kathryn Hogg]

Gretchen Dziengel wrote:

> I've usually gotten sed to do all the replacing I need in a script and if
> I were to do it with sed it should be
> sed -e 's/\'/\\\'/' infile outfile
>
> That SHOULD replace the ' with \' so I can put it into mysql.  I'm getting
> an unexpected EOF error.
> Google tells me that I can't have single quotes inside single quotes even
> if
> they are escaped.
> Is there any way this can be done?  I don't have to do it with sed.


Use double quotes for the outer level:

sed -e "s/'/\\\'/" infile outfile

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Kathryn
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