Sed to make global replacements.

[Conor P. Cahill]

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.  I would like any help 
> possible on this problem.  

How about:	sed -e 's;\\(12;1/2;'

Works for me.


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