--- "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > 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 > > > > > I like this form better - you do not have to use / to separate > fileds, and I find using @ is more readable in cases like this. I > also find that enclosing the regular expression in quotes works better. > > sed -i -e 's@\\@/@g' filename > And then there is always: perl -p -i -e 's/\\/\//g' filename -- Nix > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
