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Old 10-31-2008
How to parse slash / in sed command..
Hi All,

I am trying to replace paths with \ (as in NT) with / (as in Unix) in a script using sed. Following is the command I use:

sed "s/e:\Kenny_test\csv_files/var/opt/ciw/data/outbound/g" EMEA4710.SQL > test

the string to replace is e:\Kenny_test\csv_files
the target string needs to be /var/opt/ciw/data/outbound

Could you please help(do I need to use any "escape \".. I get a parsing error even after that..

Many Thanks & Regards,
Abhijit
# 2  
Old 10-31-2008
you have to protect all / and \ characters
/ -> \/
\ -> \\

s/e:\\win\\dir/\/var\/opt\/bullshit\//g
# 3  
Old 10-31-2008
or use a different delimiter for the substitution command.
the first character after the s will be taken as the delimiter so
Code:
sed "s_\\unc\path_/unix/style/path_"

should do the trick, and still remain fairly readable
# 4  
Old 10-31-2008
sorry, stupid me.
you stilll have to quote the backslash
Code:
echo '\\unc\path' | sed  's_\\\\unc\\path_/unix/path_'

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