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sed 's#\\#/#g' myFile

sed 's:\\:/:g' file
or
sed 'y:\\:/:' file

Add a -i.bkup if you want to backup the original file and then write the changes to it:


sed -i.bkup 's|\\|\/|g' file

cat file
1578449...

cat filename | tr '\\' '/' > filename.mod

If a parameter is given along with a script name while invoking it, then that parameter is considered, otherwise 'today' would contain `date +%y%m%d`.

For e.g., consider this script:
#! /bin/bash...

Maybe an older version of awk takes RS as a regular expression and matches it with the beginning of each line.

How about trying to substitute ^ with other strange char in your input file and in...

Or RS="[^]"

That assignment gives error, because it understands ^] as "except ]". It could be RS="[\\^]"

$ LANG=en awk 'BEGIN {RS="[^]"; FS="#";} { print $2}' 123456
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: Unmatched [ or...

I tried:
awk '{print $2}' FS=# RS=^ infile
and it worked on various awks.
What awk are you using?. Are you on Solaris? => use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk instead

Hi Vidhyaprakash,

I only can say that it works as expected in my system:

$ awk --version | head -1 ...