Replacing words with special character in a file

Question

I want to change the command \pause into %\pause in all my tex files. So I used the following Linux command:

for f in *.tex; do sed -i 's/\pause/%\pause/g' $f; done

but the problem is that the machine don't take into account the character \, so it only changes pause into %pause.

Answer 1

You should escape \ with \\:

for f in ./*.tex; do sed -i -e 's/\\pause/%&/g' "$f"; done