diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-test.yaml
index 97707ff..9932d61 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-test.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ jobs:
         DEV_VERSION=${{ github.event.inputs.dev_version }}
         CURRENT_VERSION=$(awk -F= '/__version__ =/ {print $2}' llama_cpp/__init__.py | tr -d ' "')
         NEW_VERSION="${CURRENT_VERSION}.dev${DEV_VERSION}"
-        sed -i "s/__version__ = \\".*\\"/__version__ = \\"${NEW_VERSION}\\"/" llama_cpp/__init__.py
+        sed -i 's/__version__ = \".*\"/__version__ = \"'"${NEW_VERSION}"'\"/' llama_cpp/__init__.py
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |
         python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip build