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07-03-2008

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Another problem

Thank you spirtle it works with the comma.

Do you now how to properly escape backslash too?

I need to replace every "/" from a variable with "\\/" but this does not seem to work if I put it in a variable. Here is an example:

Code:

[root@europa:/]# echo $escape_slash
/fileserver/sn-cvsroot/batchpltf/
[root:/]# echo $escape_slash | sed s,/,\\\\\\\\\\/,g
\\/fileserver\\/sn-cvsroot\\/batchpltf\\/

As you can see instead of "\\" I always get a single "\" in the variable no matter how many "\" characters I place in there:

[root:/]# escape_slash_b=`echo $escape_slash | sed s,/,\\\\\\\\\\/,g`
[root@europa:/]#  echo $escape_slash_b
\/fileserver\/sn-cvsroot\/batchpltf\/

If I replace "/" with only "\/" sed gives an error on my system so I noticed that "\\/" works(but not from a variable tho, which is what I need).

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