[plug] Sed regex help

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Brad Campbell wrote:

> G'day all,
> I have a script where I need to convert the "\" in dos filenames to "/" 
> suitable for feeding to basename.
> 
> Lets say
> 
> export DOC="C:\BLAH\BLAH\FRED.DOC"
> and I want to convert this to C:/BLAH/BLAH/FRED.DOC
> 
> Now on the command line
> echo $DOC | sed s/\\\\/\//g
> gives me the desired output, but in a bash script
> DOC2=`echo $DOC | sed s/\\\\/\//g`
> 
> gives me the unmodified original string.
> 
> What am I doing wrong. I'm sure I'm going to kick myself.

I think you need a "-e"

tony at balder:~$ DOC="C:\BLAH\BLAH\FRED.DOC"
tony at balder:~$ echo $DOC
C:\BLAH\BLAH\FRED.DOC
tony at balder:~$ echo $DOC | sed -e 's/\\/\//g'
C:/BLAH/BLAH/FRED.DOC
tony at balder:~$

Yours Tony

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