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From: jhaberla99 on 16 Apr 2008 16:27
Is there a method to replace the greater than and less than symbols
with < and > for processing in an XML file? I had tried to use
sed similar to the following but it does not work:

$ echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/>/g'
test>gt;1w3

From: John W. Krahn on 16 Apr 2008 16:30
jhaberla99(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a method to replace the greater than and less than symbols
> with < and > for processing in an XML file? I had tried to use
> sed similar to the following but it does not work:
>
> $ echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/>/g'
> test>gt;1w3

echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/\>/g'


John
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From: Chris Mattern on 16 Apr 2008 17:30
On 2008-04-16, jhaberla99(a)gmail.com <jhaberla99(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a method to replace the greater than and less than symbols
> with &lt; and &gt; for processing in an XML file? I had tried to use
> sed similar to the following but it does not work:
>
> $ echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/&gt;/g'
> test>gt;1w3
>

"&" is a special character in the replacement operand of
substitution REs, meaning "what got matched by the match
operand." In this case, that was ">", so "&gt;" becomes
">gt;". You need to escape it to tell sed not to treat it
as a special character:

$ echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/\&gt;/g'
test&gt;1w3



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From: Stephane CHAZELAS on 17 Apr 2008 02:21
2008-04-16, 13:27(-07), jhaberla99(a)gmail.com:
> Is there a method to replace the greater than and less than symbols
> with &lt; and &gt; for processing in an XML file? I had tried to use
> sed similar to the following but it does not work:
>
> $ echo "test>1w3" |sed 's/>/&gt;/g'
> test>gt;1w3

If you have GNU recode:

recode ..html

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