I want to use sed to replace every occurrence of /dir with $dir (replace / with $) in every script

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Published on 2010-03-01T18:44:32Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 8:11 UTC
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use sed to replace every occurrence of /dir with $dir (replace / with $) in every script in a directory.

sed "s#/dir#$dir#g"

The $ keeps being interpreted as a function or variable call. Is there a way around this?

thanks

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