Removing Backslash with Sed
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Sep 7 21:52:16 UTC 2006
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:43:14PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> I have large number of scanned images of documents, which have been
>> 'managed' by a windows program which produces an index page with a link
>> to each document, and a document page with links to each page in the
>> document. There are about 1400 document pages.
>> Unfortunately the windows program produces a link in the form:
>> <a href='..\index.html'><img src='..\header_index.jpg'>
>> That is: containing backslashes.
>>
>> I have tried to figure our a search/replace line for sed but nothing I
>> have tried works...in part I assume because the '\' is itself the
>> 'escape' character. Even so, search expressions like '..\\' do not work.
>>
>> ANyone know how to do this? There are about 20 backslashes in each
>> document index page, so I am not even considering a manual method...
>> although that works...
>
> Try this untested line on a throw-away file:
>
> sed -i s/\\/\//g filename
>
>
I like this form better - you do not have to use / to separate
fileds, and I find using @ is more readable in cases like this. I
also find that enclosing the regular expression in quotes works better.
sed -i -e 's@\\@/@g' filename
Mikkel
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