Use sed to replace all backslashes with forward slashes

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I want to be able to use sed to take an input such as   C  Windows Folder File txt   to  C  Windows Folder File txt

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sed can perform text transformations on input stream from a file or from a pipeline  Example   echo  C  foo bar xml    sed  s       g    gets  C  foo bar xml

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Just use   sed  s      g    There s no reason to use   as the separator in sed  But if you really wanted to   sed  s       g

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echo  C  Windows Folder File txt    sed -e  s       g  C  Windows Folder File txt   The sed command in this case is  s OLD TEXT NEW TEXT g    The leading  s  just tells it to search for OLD TEXT and replace it with NEW TEXT   The trailing  g  just says to replace all occurrences on a given line  not just the first   And of course you need to separate the  s   the  g   the old  and the new from each other   This is where you must use forward slashes as separators   For your case OLD TEXT        and NEW TEXT          But you can t just go around typing slashes and expecting things to work as expected be taken literally while using them as separators at the same time   In general slashes are quite special and must be handled as such   They must be  escaped   i e  preceded  by a backslash   So for you  OLD TEXT         and NEW TEXT           Putting these inside the  s OLD TEXT NEW TEXT g  paradigm you get  s       g   That reads as  s             g  and after escapes is  s           g  which will replace all backslashes with forward slashes

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You can try  sed  s       g     The first   is to insert an input  the second   will be the one you want to substitute   So it is  s     First Slash     second slash             to insert input     as the new slash that will be presented     g            And that s it  It will work

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If your text is in a Bash variable  then Parameter Substitution   var        can replace substrings     p  C  foo bar xml    printf   s n    p  C  foo bar xml   printf   s n     p         C  foo bar xml   This may be leaner and clearer that filtering through a command such as tr or sed

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For me  this replaces one backslash with a forward slash   sed -e  s            file txt

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This might work for you   sed  y

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for just translating one char into another throughout a string  tr is the best tool     tr

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I had to use      or     to be able to make this work  FYI       awk           file  gt  temp  amp  amp  mv temp file     and       awk          file  gt  temp  amp  amp  mv temp file    I was using awk to remove backlashes and forward slashes from a list

[bash] Use sed to replace all backslashes with forward slashes

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