Hi Gurus

I'm new to sed.
How does one replace / with // for a string for example
//filer/test/test2/test3/test4 to become ////filer//test/t/test2//
test3//test4 ?
I have tried a variety like
TEMP_VAR=`/usr/bin/sed -e 's/\//K/g' //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 `
and I still can't get it right.
I'm not sure how to escape /.

Any is appreciated.

zw wrote:
> Hi Gurus
>
> I'm new to sed.
> How does one replace / with // for a string for example
> //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 to become ////filer//test/t/test2//
> test3//test4 ?

Use another delimiter than the usual / in your sed call, e.g. a comma...

sed 's,/,//,g'


Janis

> I have tried a variety like
> TEMP_VAR=`/usr/bin/sed -e 's/\//K/g' //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 `
> and I still can't get it right.
> I'm not sure how to escape /.
>
> Any is appreciated.

On Mar 24, 4:59pm, Janis Papanagnou <Janis_Papanag...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> zw wrote:
> > Hi Gurus
>
> > I'm new to sed.
> > How does one replace / with // for a string for example
> > //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 to become ////filer//test/t/test2//
> > test3//test4 ?
>
> Use another delimiter than the usual / in your sed call, e.g. a comma...
>
> sed 's,/,//,g'
>
> Janis
>
>
>
> > I have tried a variety like
> > TEMP_VAR=`/usr/bin/sed -e 's/\//K/g' //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 `
> > and I still can't get it right.
> > I'm not sure how to escape /.
>
> > Any is appreciated.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Janis thanks for responding. I'ms till not getting what I want.
I think it has to do with Ant task <shellscript>

zw <MPC8250@gmail.com> writes:

> Janis thanks for responding. I'ms till not getting what I want.
> I think it has to do with Ant task <shellscript>

Show input and desired output.... Thanks.

zw wrote:
>
> I'm new to sed.
> [...]
> I'm not sure how to escape /.

with a \

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zw wrote:

> Hi Gurus
>
> I'm new to sed.
> How does one replace / with // for a string for example
> //filer/test/test2/test3/test4 to become ////filer//test/t/test2//
> test3//test4 ?

$ echo '//filer/test/test2/test3/test4' | sed 's%/%//%g'
////filer//test//test2//test3//test4

or, much less readable

$ echo '//filer/test/test2/test3/test4' | sed 's/\//\/\//g'
////filer//test//test2//test3//test4

You can use almost any character in place of the / to separate the
expressions.

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