title: Windows Sed escape >< characters
body: <p>Simple question, let's say I have the following bit of text:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"websitedata://somenumber:1111022001"&gt;&lt;property=something
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  <p>Using Windows Sed I want to be able to print just the number 1111022001 and pipe that to a file, so I do the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sed -n "s/.*\"websitedata:\/\/somenumber:\(.*\)\"&gt;&lt;property=something.*/\1/p" filename &gt; output_filename
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  <p>It's failing because it still see the first > there and says unexpected > at this time, if I use ^ to escape the >&lt; then Sed sees the last > as another command and fails, also using \ to escape >&lt; throws up a path error.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas ?</p>