Changing back slashes to forward slashes

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <1990Aug16.194644.14376 at athena.mit.edu>, ramon at skye (Ramon F Herrera) writes:
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| I have a question for those {sed, grep, awk, tr} wizards out there.
| I'd like to change all the occurrences in a file of a line like this:
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| #include "dira\dirb\incl.h"
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| to 
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| #include "dira/dirb/incl.h"
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| but only for the lines that begin with "#include".

perl -pi~ -e 's#\\#/#g if /^#include/' file1.c file2.c file3.c ...

Pretty darn simple with Perl.  Even leaves you a backup.

Just another Perl hacker,
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