Hi, Please help me in resolving this problem. I want to use sed command to change the path of file to have '\' along with '/' for ex:- echo "/usr/local/chitti/my_space" | sed -n "s/\//\\\//gp" I get \/usr\/local\/chitti\/my_space But when same added in bash script I get the path as /usr/local/chitti/my_space Any help to resolve this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, chitti.

This might better be answered in the programming forum,,,, I did a google search on using the sed command and with the way your using it ,, I'm a little unclear as to exactly what it is your trying to accomplish ,,, Perhaps http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/UserInfo/R... would be able to help somewhat,,, MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running fedora 7 xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Do not use double quotes around the sed script, use single quotes like: echo "/usr/local/chitti/my_space" | sed -n 's/\//\\\//gp'

Syntax will get you every time,,,, Huh,,,!!! Well Have Fun Huh!!! MSI 845e mb 1 gb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Thanks I found the other way - using awk with FS as / and again concatenating all arguments with "\/" this when used in bash script worked perfectly. Thanks, Chitra chitti