sed replace exact match

Question

I want to change some names in a file using sed. This is how the file looks like:

#! /bin/bash

SAMPLE=\"sample_name\"
FULLSAMPLE=\"full_sample_name\"

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Answer 1

I believe \< and \> work with gnu sed, you just need to quote the sed command:

sed -i.bak 's/\/sample_01/g' file