Replace symbols > and < with &lt; and &gt;

[jhabe...@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

[John W. Krahn]

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

John
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[Chris Mattern]

"&" 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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[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2008-04-16, 13:27(-07), jhabe...@gmail.com:

If you have GNU recode:

recode ..html

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