sed problem

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 4/19/06, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello Hans,
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> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:57:54 +0200 Hans Müller <ndof at gmx.li> wrote:
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> > I have this sting: "/Linux/update" and I must substitute it to
> > "\/Linux\/update" I tryed echo "/Linux/update"|sed "s/\//\\\//g" but it
> > fails. have someone any ideas??
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> You're not escaping enough.. Use: `echo "/Linux/update"|sed "s/\//\\\\\//g"`
> or even `echo "/Linux/update"|sed "s_/_\\\\/_g"`.

You don't need to escape anything, just use a different limiter:

$ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:V:g'

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Chris

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