On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote:
> Jesse Goerz wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a
> > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've
> > tried
> > using sed but can't seem to grip these regular expressions 8-(. Here's
> > what I
> > got so far:
> >
> > echo $variable_before | sed s///./ variable_after
>
>
> Try:
>
> variable_after=`echo $variable_before | sed 's/\//./' `
> (you must escape the "/")
This was exactly what I needed. Thank you!
> If you want to replace all the occurences of "/" add an 'g' :
>
> variable_after=`echo $variable_before | sed 's/\//./g' `
>
>
> You can do this also only with bash:
>
> variable_after=${variable_before/\//.}
>
> and for multiple occurences:
>
> variable_after=${variable_before//\//.}
>
>
> Andrei
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