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Old 07-01-2010
Replace slash / with space
Hello there everyone. would like to ask for help if i wish to replace a slash / with space using sed.

Original:
Code:
T/T

Result:
Code:
T T

hope someone could help　me up, thanks

Charles
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-15-2015 at 05:36 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 07-01-2010
Code:
$ echo 'T/T' | sed 's/\// /'
T T
$

or
Code:
$ echo 'T/T' | sed 's!/! !' 
T T
$

# 3  
Old 07-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by pseudocoder
Code:
$ echo 'T/T' | sed 's/\// /'
T T
$

or
Code:
$ echo 'T/T' | sed 's!/! !' 
T T
$

thanks for the reply. i am wondering how do i do that if the T/T is in a large file with continuous value
for example:

myfile.txt
Code:
T/T R/R B/B T/T

and need the result file of:
Code:
T T R R B B T T



---------- Post updated at 05:46 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:35 AM ----------

can sed 's/\// /' myname >newfile work?
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-15-2015 at 05:35 AM.. Reason: Add CODE AND ICODE tags.
# 4  
Old 07-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by seiksoon
can
Code:
sed 's/\// /g' myname >newfile

work?
Should work, but add a "g", for global replacement, else only the first match per line gets changed and not all.
# 5  
Old 07-02-2010
Code:
(03:09:31\[D@DeCoBox15)
[~]$ echo "T/T R/R B/B T/T"|tr / " "
T T R R B B T T

tr - translate characters. sed will do the job wonderfully, but for simple things like replacing a single character, I go with tr.
 
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