Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

My target is to replace the text in a file.txt to newword, say
"singleslash" to "double/slash/"

NOTE: The replacing word itself contains the symbol /(slash).

here is my code
sed "s/singleslash/double/slash//g" file.txt [the bolded string is a complete word have to replaced instead of singleslash].

Will this properly substitute the new word double/slash/ in the file.txt.

Please let me know how it will work.

Here i made the same script with back slash (\), to avoid the special meaning. Will it work.
sed "s/singleslash/double\/slash\//g" file.txt

Thanks.

Try this:

Code:

sed 's!singleslash!double/slash/!g'

Regards

the first character in the sed substitution string acts as the delimiter.
Therefore, you could do this:

sed -e "s@singleslash@double/slash/@g" file.txt

It should work escaping the / with the \

you may also use another delimiter:

sed "s-singleslash-double/slash/-g" file.txt

Thanks for your quick replies,
with explanation...,

Could you please let me know how my suggestion will work,,
the one i updated at last of my post with back slash.

Thanks again.

It will work

sed "s/singleslash/double\/slash\//g" file.txt

Personnaly I prefer using another delimiter for clarity

Thanks for your quick response.