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Old 02-18-2011
Perhaps you could just replace the grep command with:

Code:
sed -n "/Album/s#/#_#gp"

to replace the / characters with _ characters?

To your question about Elvis! It's a function of your shell.

That it works(!) suggests the shell you are using supports it. Search for Parameter Expansion in the man page.

Here's an extract:
Code:
${parameter/pattern/string}
              The pattern is expanded to produce a pattern just as in pathname expansion.  Parameter is  expanded  and
              the  longest match of pattern against its value is replaced with string.

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Great, thanks again!
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