sed replace question

aaadougford · 01-31-2014, 04:19 PM

In the path you see below with sed I'm trying to replace the ~ with a /.

It doesn't work with sed 's/~///'

I'm sure there is a something to tell sed to take the / as the replacement character.

/home/dford/DataOneNew/lifestyle_gallery/hash/f/e/f~6d2d5682ec7f3ab835d1eb089876f8dd29ea0fef.jpg

Please help

granth · 01-31-2014, 04:58 PM

You need to "escape" the slash.

Eg.

Code:

sed 's/~/\//'

MARogue · 01-31-2014, 05:01 PM

This page on sedhas helped me a great deal. Maybe you will find it useful.

Regards

markush · 01-31-2014, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aaadougford

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It doesn't work with sed 's/~///'

But this

Code:

sed 's&~&/&'

will work because you can replace the '/' with any other character as long as it is not used within the pattern.

Markus