sed awk bug

[Gary Knott]

Dear Gnu bug-fixer,

The sed command we need to replace zzz with & everywhere in the file F
is:

sed -e s/zzz/\&/g F

But it does not work!  The & is still replaced by
the matched pattern zzz, even though it is escaped.


(There is a similar problem in awk.)

Thanks for your help.

By the way, if there is a way you know for me to solve this problem
now, please email me about it.

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