Help with sed to replace entire line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I need to replace an entire mailx line as follows using sed:

sed -e 's/<line1>/<newline>/g' <filename>

But I am getting comman garbled error since the new line has many special characters. I enclosed allspecial chars in \ but still no use.

Can any one help me?

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Please post examples of your input and desired output to help us help you better :slight_smile:

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Please see my code:

sed -e 's/\"`\date\`"\/\"`\date\`"\ \`\cat \$\SRC\/\mail_list\`\/g' sap_prod_test_accts.ksh1 > sap_prod_test_accts.ksh2
sed: command garbled: s/\"`\date\`"\/\"`\date\`"\ \`\cat \$\SRC\/\mail_list\`\/g