> > If backslashes will only appear in file paths, you
> > are set. If they
> > appear in some other contents where they need to be
> > kept, then look at a
> > more sophisticated tool like sed.
> >
> This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
Ok... You're going to have to do some surgery with sed scripts, and if
that fails, do it by hand...
sed basically is a batch editor. You give on the command line a
sequence of editing commands (or tell it to read them from a file), and
it applies them automatically to each line on its standard input.
What you need to do is determine if the two kinds of backslashes, the
ones needing to be changed and the ones that don't, appear in disjoint
contexts. For example, do you only have backlash escape sequences
inside printf statements, or do they occur in string literals elsewhere
in your code? Do any literal pathnames appear inside printf statements?
If this above is true, you could write a script that changed the
backslashes into slashes only outside printf statements, or something
similar. However, the viability of this kind of approach depends on
your code.
