Removing Backslash with Sed

[John Wendel]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I have large number of scanned images of documents, which have been 
> 'managed' by a windows program which produces an index page with a link 
> to each document, and a document page with links to each page in the 
> document. There are about 1400 document pages.
> Unfortunately the windows program produces a link in the form:
> <a href='..\index.html'><img src='..\header_index.jpg'>
> That is: containing backslashes.
> 
> I have tried to figure our a search/replace line for sed but nothing I 
> have tried works...in part I assume because the '\' is itself the 
> 'escape' character. Even so, search expressions like '..\\' do not work.
> 
> ANyone know how to do this? There are about 20 backslashes in each 
> document index page, so I am not even considering a manual method... 
> although that works...
> Geoff
> 
> 

Have you tried the "tr" program.  tr '\\' '/' < old > new

Regards,

John