[Techtalk] filtering command line
Michelle Konzack
linux4michelle at freenet.de
Wed Jun 13 17:01:23 UTC 2007
Am 2007-06-11 15:31:05, schrieb Conor Daly:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:42:03PM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Miriam English thought:
> >
> > After doing a fair bit of reading I have a feeling I might need to use
> > sed with something like
> > s/\//\/g
>
> The fun thing with sed is when you start trying to escape characters. It
> can get very messy very fast. However, sed allows you to use any
> delimiter in your expression. So, in the case where you want to match a
> '/', you could do something like:
>
> s@/@\@g
>
> where '@' is now the pattern delimiter. There is probably a way to tell
> sed to use a different escape character so that you could do:
>
> s@/@\@g
>
> but I have no clue how to do that...
Try:
's|\\|/|g'
and it just works... Had to fight several times with it.
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
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