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Old 11-17-2012
sed command escaping backslash "/"
Hello friends/'unix experts',

i have a file as below

Code:
 
cat sample.txt
 
satish
/rakesh/
sandhya
/sandeep/

i have to replace /rakesh/ with rakesh, how can i do it with sed, i tried below code but its throwing errors

Code:
 
sed -e 's/'"\(/rakesh/)\"'/\1rakesh/g' sample.txt

please help me.............
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Old 11-17-2012
Code:
sed 's!/rakesh/!rakesh!g' sample.txt

or
Code:
sed '/rakesh/s!/!!g' sample.txt

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