sed to Find and replace with / and not special character

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How can I use / in sed to find and replace as a normal / and not a special charatcer.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32907/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-when-using-sed-in-a-sh-script — John, May 18 '18 at 02:29

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 18 '18 at 08:15

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sed can use any other delimiter than slash, whatever comes after s is treated as a delimiter For eg: you can use a hash to replace slash by space

$ s#/# #g

Or you can use ? to replace / by space

$ s?/? ?g

Or any other delimiter of your choice

Or you can escape / by using backslash

$ s/\// /g

edited May 18 '18 at 08:15

αғsнιη

answered May 18 '18 at 02:30

Arushix

It's not GNU specific, any sed can do that. Same in ed (where that s|...|...| comes from in the late 60s), or ex/vi or perl. – Stéphane Chazelas May 18 '18 at 07:48

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