Re: grep "\" ... how

[Alvis W Tabner III <trey@tabner.com>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:09:45AM -0700, 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)?

You can use sed (if I understand you correctly):
   "sed s/\\\\/\\//g filename"
That will replace all occurrences of '\' with '/'.

> 
> this is to port a windows program to linux.
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Alvis (Trey) W. Tabner III

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