Hi, I have a file which is as follows and I want to delete all occurrences of the /jsn/pjs/ . 270 644 /jsn/pjs/1.txt 79 17 /jsn/pjs/2.txt I tried using as sed 's//jsn/pjs/,//g' xyz.txt But it does not work.Can soemone please help where I am wrong?I am using KSH. Thanks, Poornima

You have to escape the default delimiter, /, that sed uses: #!/bin/ksh sed 's/\/jsn\/pjs\///g' xyz.txt # or you can change the delimiter: sed 's&/jsn/pjs/&&g' xyz.txt

Thanks a lot Nails. I used your second option. Since replace was not occurring in the original file(xyz.txt), I put the output to a separate file b.txt and deleted the xyz.txt. Thanks Poornima

another way without too much meddling with slashes # awk 'BEGIN{FS="/jsn/pjs/"}{$1=$1}1' file 270 644 1.txt 79 17 2.txt