Removing Backslash with Sed

["R. G. Newbury" <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: Re: Removing Backslash with Sed

>On 07Sep2006 16:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>| sed -i -e 's@\\@/@g' filename

>Or better, the y operator:

>  sed 'y|\\|/|'

>It's character based - probably faster that the regexps used by s/...
>But tr is better still:

>  tr '\' '/' <oldfile >newfile


Yes it is!  Thank you, tr worked nicely on a test file. I'll just stuiff 
it into a for loop and voila done!.

Thanks
Geoff