On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:09:45AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)?
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