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Escape a string for use as/in a sed replacement.
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| # Escapes a string for use as/in a sed replacement | |
| # https://stackoverflow.com/a/2705678 | |
| sed_escape_replacement() { | |
| sed -e 's/[\/&]/\\&/g' -e 's/$/\\n/g' | tr -d '\n' | head -c -2 | |
| } |
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