replacing the character "\" in a file - Shell Programming and Scripting

rjsha1 · #1 01-11-2006

I am using sed to replace things like "," and tabs in a file, but what is the code for replacing a \ ????

mona · #2 01-11-2006

Hope this will help you

Code:

echo "hai \\" | sed 's/\\/replaced/'

rjsha1 · #3 01-11-2006

Hi there,
this is what I'm running from the command line

sed -e s/\\/ / TalkTalk5.txt > bob.slash

but I'm still getting a garbed error message. Any ideas ?????

mona · #4 01-11-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjsha1

Hi there,
this is what I'm running from the command line

sed -e s/\\/ / TalkTalk5.txt > bob.slash

but I'm still getting a garbed error message. Any ideas ?????

You are missing single quote. Try this

Code:

sed -e 's/\\/ /'  TalkTalk5.txt > bob.slash

rjsha1 · #5 01-11-2006

Cheers mona,
I thought I was going mad - that what happens when you look at the screen for too long

mona · #6 01-11-2006

It happens

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