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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pattern substitute for "\" Post 23709 by ss_hpov on Thursday 27th of June 2002 04:32:36 PM
Old 06-27-2002
Question Pattern substitute for "\"
Hi
I want to convert string

text="/opt/string/text"

to

"\/opt\/string\/text"

Any ideas how i can do it inside a shell script

I tried sed/awk but i am getting syntax error.
this is code
text =`echo $text | sed 's/\//\\\//'`


HELP

Thanks
 

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Name
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