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sed special character replace not working in shell script

I want to write a script 'test.sh' that will take a user's input and replace all special characters with a '\' + the character. My script: #!/bin/bash echo 'input='"$1" arg=`echo "$1" | sed ...
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How to detect and delete lines containing ˆ@

I have a simple problem: In my file, the are lines containing the string ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@ˆ@. I just want to delete all lines with this string, using for example the sed or grep commands. And I would like ...