Sed to make global replacements.

[Bruce Crabtree]

In article <37090 at ames.arc.nasa.gov> gahooten at orion.arc.nasa.gov (Gregory A. Hooten) writes:
>I would like to change the characters \(12 to 1/2, but every thing I try
>thinks the \( is the start of a character group.

Try
           sed 's/[\\](12/1\/2/g'

The brackets ('[]') are used to prevent sed from seeing the '\('
character combination and interpreting them as such.  Two backslashes
are used since the backslash must be escaped in sed.  The slash or
virgule in the '1/2' must also be escaped since sed would take it to
be the delimiter of the substitute command.  I've added the 'g' or
global option since I assume you might have more than one instance
of \(12 per line.

Bruce Crabtree

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