Escape <and> in sed / shell

Question

How can I escape '<' and '>' in sed.

I have some XML files that need some text between the tags that need to be replaced. How can I avoid the ">" and "<" characters.

Problem s> and <this is of particular importance in the shell for redirecting output to a file. So the backslash doesn't work.

Answer 1

Ok I discovered it myself. Use quotation marks.

$ sed -i "s/>foo</>bar</g" file

Answer 2

Backslash Escape

Answer 3

. , , , . sed XML , ? :

sed -re '[email protected](<TAG.*?>).*?(</TAG>)@\1hi\[email protected]' test.xml