sed command not running - Shell Programming and Scripting

mmunir · #1 04-17-2008

I am using solrais 10 on sun sparc.

The following command executes successfully

Code:

echo c:/test.txt | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'

But when i executes the following command

Code:

x=`echo c:/test.txt | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g'`

I get the following error

Code:

sed: command garbled: s/\//\\//g

Is there any way to avoid this error. I am using the Bash shell.

Tytalus · #2 04-17-2008

one way:

Code:

#  x=`echo c:/test.txt | sed -e 's/\\//\\\\\//g'`

#  echo $x
c:\/test.txt

vgersh99 · #3 04-17-2008

what is it that you're trying to achieve?

mmunir · #4 04-17-2008

Thanks all of you for helping me.

>what is it that you're trying to achieve?

Actually, i am to pass the output of this command to SED to replace a variable PATH with the output of this command.

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