On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:43:14PM -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > I have large number of scanned images of documents, which have been > 'managed' by a windows program which produces an index page with a link > to each document, and a document page with links to each page in the > document. There are about 1400 document pages. > Unfortunately the windows program produces a link in the form: > <a href='..\index.html'><img src='..\header_index.jpg'> > That is: containing backslashes. > > I have tried to figure our a search/replace line for sed but nothing I > have tried works...in part I assume because the '\' is itself the > 'escape' character. Even so, search expressions like '..\\' do not work. > > ANyone know how to do this? There are about 20 backslashes in each > document index page, so I am not even considering a manual method... > although that works... Try this untested line on a throw-away file: sed -i s/\\/\//g filename -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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