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

[Gretchen Dziengel]

On 7/11/07, Gretchen Dziengel <gdziengel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/11/07, Kathryn Hogg <kjh at flyballdogs.com> wrote:
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> > Use double quotes for the outer level:
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> > sed -e "s/'/\\\'/" infile outfile
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> That makes perfect sense, but it's still not working for me.
> sed -e "s/\'/\\\'/" step24.txt > step25.txt
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Shoot!
I have an extra backslash in mine.  It works great now.  Sorry!