On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 02:04 -0500, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > Then I copied and pasted the exact command you gave above: > > [linush@lh4 ~]$ sed 's/\/usr\/bonsaitools\/bin\/perl/\/usr\/bin\/perl/g' junk1 > /usr/bin/perl > /usr/bin/perl > /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl > > It appears to work just fine. Are you aware that sed will not make > changes to the file, but rather sends the updated contents to stdout > unless you use -i? > when you're playing with stuff like directories, that backslashing all the slashes gets old quickly. you can use any character for sed's expression separator. when i fool around with sed and directories, i often use it like this: sed 's%firstone%newone%g' .... or sed 's-/usr/bin/whatever-/new/path-g' just makes it a lot easier than all those backslashes. and more readable and maintainable in the process. john
