Hello All I'm having a little problem using SED. I can get the SED command to work on the command line but not in a script below is the script I'm using. #!/usr/bin/ksh logfile=/var/adm/messages.1 searchlog=/monitor/nagios/scripts/MESSAGE.txt if [ ! -e $searchlog ] then head -1 $logfile | cut -d'[' -f1|read VAR1 echo "VAR1 = "$VAR1 echo "$VAR1" | cut -d" " -f5|read VAR2 echo "VAR2 = "$VAR2 if [[ $VAR2 = /* ]] then echo "VAR1 THEN = "$VAR1 VAR3=`echo $VAR1 | sed 's/\//\\\//g'` # echo "$VAR3" > $searchlog echo "VAR3 = "$VAR3 # echo "IN THEN" else # echo "$VAR1" > $searchlog echo "VAR1 = "$VAR1 echo "IN ELSE" fi fi echo "Out Of Loop" This is the output I'm getting. VAR1 = Feb 24 10:24:18 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: VAR2 = /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: VAR1 THEN = Feb 24 10:24:18 /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: sed: command garbled: s/\//\\//g VAR3 = Out Of Loop Also here is what I get when I set VAR3 to /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: and run this command echo $VAR3 | sed 's/\//\\\//g' below is the output. \/usr\/lib\/snmp\/snmpdx: I have no clue way this is not working any help would be great. Thanks

replace: (single quotes) VAR3=`echo $VAR1 | sed 's/\//\\\//g'` with: (double quotes) VAR3=`echo $VAR1 | sed "s/\//\\\//g"` Luke Chi