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Old 06-04-2008
How to replace a character in the file?
Hi All,

I have file contains the following information.

chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 81 ] ] Critical 3/21
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 82 ] ] Normal 3/22
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 83 ] ] Normal 3/23
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 84 ] ] Normal 3/24
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 85 ] ] Critical 3/25
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 86 ] ] Normal 3/26
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 87 ] ] Critical 3/27
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 88 ] ] Normal 3/28
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 89 ] ] Normal 3/29
chem00s4.mis.amat.com[ 0 [ 90 ] ] Normal 3/30


I want to replace all '/' to '\'. How to do this?

Thanks in Advance,
Gobinathan.S
# 2  
Old 06-04-2008
Try this:

Code:
sed 's!/!\\!' file

Regards
# 3  
Old 06-04-2008
With tr:

Code:
<file tr / '\\'

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