1. with. 0. share|follow |. sed "s|regex|replace|" file. modsiw asked on 2011-02-11. Active 2 years, 4 months ago. 1. Remove forward-slash using sed. \) with a forward slash (i.e. Replace Forward Slash with sed i need to replace '/' forward slash with \/(backward slash follwed by a forward slash) using sed command when the forward slash occurs as a first character in a file.. /) by calling sed from find.To do that you have to double-escape the backslashes, because the string is going to be processed twice: once by the invocation of find and then a second time by the invocation of sed.This should give you the following: Hello experts. find and replace with sed with slash in find and replace string. As soon as there are slashes in the search pattern or the replacement string, I prefer choosing a different delimiter instead of messing around with backslashes. 4. 1. read variable from a file and pass it to sed. Discussion Using sed to append backward slash before forward slash. Questions: I want to be able to use sed to take an input such as: C:\Windows\Folder\File.txt To. Tried something like this but doesn't seem to work. Active 3 years, 3 months ago. 1 Solution. if your sed supports it. Actually, the / is not really special for the s command, it's just common practice to use it, but you could use almost everything else as delimiter. Uncategorized 0. Viewed 5k times 2. There are possible problems with escaping of backslash to cancel its special meaning. sed replace backslash. | rex mode=sed "s/(\\\){2}/\1/g" The key seems to be that the \ character needs to be followed by another character other than a forward slash in the replacement group. Escapes (sed, a stream editor) ... you can also escape any Replace Forward Slash with sed i need to replace '/' forward slash with \/ (backward slash follwed by a forward slash) using sed command when the forward slash occurs as a first character in a file.. Replace backslash at the end of the string using sed command I have text file which is a tab delimited one. The character directly after the sdetermines which character is the separator, which must appear three times in the scommand. If you want the replace some occurences of a URL in a file the sed command looks really ugly because you have to escape every slash "/" with a backslash "\" To make it look a lot cleaner you could just change the delimiter used by sed: bash sed. Share. Ask Question Asked 4 years, 6 months ago. I have a file containing 2 entries: Original File:... (5 Replies) Remove forward-slash using sed. Then it is no longer necessary to escape the slashes. sed 's/\\/ /g' or you can remove it as you show in your code: sed 's/\\//g' Special characters. Stuck With Using find and sed to Replace String in Filenames. Backslash is a special character used for escaping both in a shell and in regular expressions. I only want to replace the forward slash with string "FW_SLASH" only if there's a number right after the slash while preserving the original number. You can either replace the backslash by a space as you show in the example result: sed 's/\\/ /g' or you can remove it as you show in your code: sed 's/\\//g' Special characters. 1. I have a text file that contains . Pass variable to sed and change backslash to forward slash. Sed escape forward slash. This will embed a newline into the "replace" portion. Sed command is a text editor tool used for editing files. I am escaping the forward slash and backslash - so not sure where I have gone wrong here. sed "s/regex/replace/" file. ... you can also escape any embedded delimiter characters in your pattern and replacement by prefixing them each with a backslash \. The regex is working around this by capturing a slash and then we re-use that captured slash as our replacement so we can use characters that are not a backslash in the replacement. 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