Substitute single backward-slash with the double backward-slash

mvictorvijayan · #1 (**permalink**) 06-25-2009

Hi,

I have a path like this c:\test\sample\programs, i need to change thiis to c:\\test\\sample\\programs. How to perform this? I tried tr command but it didn't help me.

Thanks
Vijayan

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-25-2009

try sed.

methyl · #3 (**permalink**) 06-25-2009

We need to avoid "echo" because the \t contained in the string becomes a tab!
Try this.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
print -R "c:\test\sample\programs"|sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g'

c:\\test\\sample\\programs

mvictorvijayan · #4 (**permalink**) 06-26-2009

Thanks methyl, it works fine.

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