How to replace "\&" with "&"?

freelong · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008

I want to remove the backslash in the front of &, and
want to use gsub, how to do that?

echo "Free \& Long" | awk '{gsub(/\\&/, "&"); print}'

This one is not working, and I think it takes the second "&" in gsub as the substitute of "\\&".
Thanks a lot!

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008

What about removing only the backslash:

Code:

echo "Free \& Long" | awk '{gsub(/ \\/, " "); print}'

freelong · #3 (**permalink**) 06-23-2008

I got it. Like this:

Code:

echo "Free \& Long" | awk '{gsub(/\\&/, "\\&"); print}'

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