On 4/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > > You don't need to escape anything, just use a different limiter: > > > > $ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:V:g' > > The replacement text wasn't "V", it was "\/", which *does* need escaping. Ah, ok. Well, in that case it's still easier to just use a different delimiter to avoid confusion: ;-) $ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:\\/:g' -- Chris "I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford. I trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."