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Operating Systems AIX check for a particular character inside a file and substitute with a given character? Post 302210449 by zaxxon on Tuesday 1st of July 2008 03:29:31 AM
Old 07-01-2008
This is better placed in the subforum for shell scripting than in AIX. Nevertheless:
Code:
echo "c:\data\test\accounts.xls"| sed 's!\\!\/!g'
c:/data/test/accounts.xls

sed is a stream editor - you will not need a loop. It works on every line of input, like awk or grep.
If you want to reverse it, just change the slash vs. the backslash which are pointed out in bold up there.
 

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