sed problem

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 4/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> >
> > You don't need to escape anything, just use a different limiter:
> >
> > $ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:V:g'
>
> The replacement text wasn't "V", it was "\/", which *does* need escaping.

Ah, ok.  Well, in that case it's still easier to just use a different
delimiter to avoid confusion: ;-)

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

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Chris

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