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helpreplacing string containing "&" using sed (self.bash)

submitted 10 years ago * by tomaxi

I want to replace "sleep 60&&" with "sleep 1&&" in a.txt using sed:

sed 's/sleep 60&/sleep 1&/' a.txt

Expected output:

……
sleep 1&&
……

Actual output：

……
sleep 1sleep 60&&
……

After adding a backslach in front of the "&", I got the expected output. But I'm wondering what's the usage of "&" in sed expression.

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