Removing Backslash with Sed

[Cameron Simpson]

On 07Sep2006 16:52, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
| sed -i -e 's@\\@/@g' filename

Or better, the y operator:

  sed 'y|\\|/|'

It's character based - probably faster that the regexps used by s/...
But tr is better still:

  tr '\' '/' <oldfile >newfile

Cheers,
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