> On Fri Jun 11, 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get > > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line > > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? > > Put the expression in single quotes? This doesn't work. `\` is the quote character for grep. You need to quote the `\` itself; that is, to use '\\'